OPEN SOURCE EDUCATION POLICY
Summary and Aims of our policy.
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It our belief that anyone should be able to easily access any form of education, at any stage of their life, in order to resolve any lack of knowledge they have, and achieve any qualification they wish. Our aim therefore is to provide all the education an individual needs, in all areas of life, at all times, at almost zero cost.
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Current unresolved issues.
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We do not wish to criticise all the people in the education system who are dedicated to helping children, we wish to help make education more functional. However our current education system prepares children for academic assessment and exams, so that government targets can be met, it spends little time doing anything other than this. This fundamentally fails to meet nearly all the important requirements of human education, the things we need to know about and understand in adulthood, such as our psychology, money management, work, and parenting. Our education system will therefore always lead to a lack of essential life knowledge that will lead to problems in society, and for this reason we believe it requires a complete restructuring. In addition to this there are many barriers to people easily obtaining the education and professional qualifications they need and seek. Lack of availability, cost, and inflexible teaching schedules being the most common ones.
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Our education system is hugely repetitive and does not therefore optimise the use of resources; teachers, college, and university lecturers across the country, replicate the same lessons that hundreds of other teachers and lecturers are creating, over and over again. However instead of this we could create one set of lessons of the highest quality, and make these publicly available. All of these points extend into adult and professional education.
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Our Policy - How it resolves the issues and achieves the aims.
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Our Education Policy explains our overall strategy for education, whereas this policy deals with one aspect of this policy, namely open source education. We divide education up into three phases, pre school, schooling up to 18 years old, and adult education.
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Most of the entirety of all education needs, in any area of life, at any stage of education, will be met by the government education department, and in addition organisations will remain free to create what ever education systems they wish. The education department will create all education resources required, in partnership with the top experts in every field of teaching and industry. These people will be those who have the greatest passions for their subjects, who know how to make learning inspiring and fun, and who teach the deepest understandings in the most easily understood ways. Education department resources will be presented as videos, e-text books, online lessons and lectures, along with everything else that is required to learn, such as exercises, answers, examples, tests, and exams. All resources will be published online and be open source, they will therefore be available to any one at any stage of their life, and nearly all of the learning can therefore be carried out from the comfort of home.
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The open source education will begin with parents, so that they have all the training and knowledge they need prior to becoming parents. It will provide everything they need to carryout the education of their children up to the age of school. The open source education will continue through schools, providing the majority of all lesson plans and teaching material for teachers.
Open source education will carry on throughout all adulthood, providing advice on all areas of life. This includes extensive resources in all areas that adults struggle with and need help, such as money management and careers advice, sex and relationships, social issues, mental and physical health, home buying and maintenance, pensions, wills, and power of attorney, etc. Everyone child will be taught in schools how and where to find any resources or help that they will need.
Open source education will provide comprehensive professional education in all areas of work and industry, resulting in professional qualifications. It will be mandatory in nearly all careers to be fully trained in order to be able to work in that career, no matter what the level of pay or responsibility. This is because it is in everyone's interest that all parts of the workforce are fully knowledgeable, proficient, and safe in their work. This applies to everything from cleaners and rubbish collectors to surgeons and solicitors; in our politics every worker is highly valued, and carries responsibility, they therefore need the necessary training to carryout their responsibilities. So for example all trades in the construction industry will have to be fully qualified, all bar workers and waiters, all administrative staff, all managers and business owners etc. The professional open source education system will work in conjunction with apprenticeships where appropriate, in order to complete professional training, resulting in universally recognised qualifications in all areas of industry and work. Some may find this excessive, but we remind you that the education will in most cases cost very little and can be done at home at any time; everyone benefits hugely from it.
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All degree courses will be offered online in a similar way, and there will be no eligibility requirements to begin higher education. Anyone can simply go online, and begin learning what ever course they wish, at any time, even as children. Should they require it, they will be able to pay for tutors to help them, and they would have to pay a small fee for sitting exams in order to earn their degree. Universities will continue to service degree courses that require lab facilities such as sciences and medicine, however in many cases students would only need to visit the university to use these facilities, and at other times can work from home if they so wish.
In this way the huge majority of higher education and professional qualification is immediately accessible to everyone; anyone is free to train, or retrain, in any profession, at any time, for minimal cost. Adults could also go back and access any lessons or teaching materials from any stage of their childhood education, and if desired sit any exams they did not pass, or did not take, to add to their qualifications.
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This body of open source education courses will be standardised across the country, meaning that everyone will work to the same curriculums, and be examined and assessed by the same standards. Given this system there will be a vast range of open source courses or modules, and huge flexibility in what people study. For example degree courses will be constructed according to the needs and wishes of each individual, from an exhaustive list of modules. Guidance will be given on minimum requirements for each degree, or professional qualification sought, along with advice on what is required for higher level qualification.
The costs of all education will be publicly funded up to 18 years old, thereafter the costs will be minimal, as there will be one set of online resources covering the entire country for each subject area. People have the opportunity to attend universities if they wish, but this would be their choice, and create much greater costs for them, which they would have to fund in a similar way to the current system.
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​This would complete our mission to provide all education required for all aspects of life, on a flexible open source basis, that is at minimal cost. In this way any person, at any time in their life, can access any course they wish, on a completely flexible basis which suits the routine and pace at which they wish to study, and gain what ever knowledge or professional qualifications they seek.
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Summary of benefits of this policy.​
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Vastly reduced cost of education in all areas of life.
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Universal access to all education by all people.
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Complete flexibility to study at any time in life and at any pace.
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Huge increase in the knowledge and skills of the entire British workforce.
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Increased pay as a result of better professional qualifications.
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Increased personal satisfaction and pride in work for every worker.
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Improved quality of working life as a result of safer and more functional working environments.
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Massive improvements in the efficiency of the entire British economy resulting in £billions of extra productivity.
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More money for public services.
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Better knowledge and management of personal life and it's challenges on the part of individuals.
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General improvement in the wellbeing of all people across society.
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Supporting policies.
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Standardisation & Simplification policy.
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Witten by Marcus white © 3-5-2024.
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