Artículo en Financial Times sobre LOMCE y Wert al que llaman "Mr Unpopular"

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Artículo en Financial Times sobre LOMCE y Wert al que llaman "Mr Unpopular"

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Es un artículo de pago, como me ha constado encontrar un enlace donde finalmente lo he podido ver y no sé si se podrá ver lo incluyo, aunque el artículo indica copyright y pide que no se haga copiar y pegar ...

Además de citar frases de Wert citan a Andreas Schleicher, un cargo de la OCDE.
Para mi el artículo se resume en una visión simplista en la que se quedan solamente con el fracaso escolar, comentarios sobre lo del catalán, y viene a apoyar la necesidad de reformas y lo que propone Wert, sin entrar en que se ha impuesto y detalles sobre el ataque a pública y retroceso que supone (retroceso que sí citan pero simplemente como crítica pero sin dar detalles "Critics see the proposal as an attempt to roll back progressive education reforms of the past")

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March 3, 2013 4:46 pm
Mr Unpopular urges Spain schools reform
By Tobias Buck in Madrid

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Battered by the economic crisis and a string of corruption scandals, Spain’s political class is losing public support at an alarming rate. Few Spanish politicians, however, have managed to become quite as unpopular as José Ignacio Wert, the sharp-tongued education minister.

According to opinion polls, he is the most disliked member of the cabinet. Clad in a dinner jacket and surrounded by celebrities, the minister had to endure hours of criticism at the recent Spanish film awards gala, as actors and presenters used their speeches to lash out at him.

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In several Catalan towns Mr Wert is not supposed to show his face at all, after local councils officially declared him persona non grata.

The 62-year-old trained sociologist claims the personal backlash does not affect him. “I am the most popular member of the government – except for all the others,” Mr Wert declares with a smile, before making a more serious point.

“Education is an extremely polarising issue ... The only way of not being controversial if you have responsibility for education is doing nothing,” he tells the Financial Times.

Far from doing nothing, Mr Wert marked his first year in office by proposing a sweeping overhaul of the Spanish school system, launching one of the most controversial reform projects of the centre-right government.

Critics see the proposal as an attempt to roll back progressive education reforms of the past. The outcry has been especially fierce in Catalonia, because of a plan to raise the status of Spanish in a regional education system dominated by the Catalan language.

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There is also fierce opposition to Mr Wert’s proposal for a more harmonised approach towards teaching Spanish history – a backlash that only grew stronger after the minister said during a debate in parliament that he wanted to “Hispanisise” Catalan students. The remark was a mistake, Mr Wert admits, but he defends the need to teach a more unified version of the country’s history.

The Catalan controversy aside, most analysts agree that an overhaul of the Spanish education system is badly needed. They typically point out that more than one in two young Spaniards is out of work – one of the highest rates in the developed world. And while Spain’s youth unemployment crisis has many causes, there is strong evidence that the education system is at least partly to blame.

The number of early school leavers, for example, is twice as high as the EU average. Until the collapse of the housing industry, poorly-educated teenagers could find work on building sites – now they form the new hardcore of Spain’s unemployment problem.

The average Spanish student also does worse than peers in other developed countries, according to studies by the Paris-based OECD, the global economics body.

Education in maths, sciences and languages is a particular problem, and one that students often carry through into the later stages of their life. Only one in 20 university graduates, for example, achieves a degree in sciences, a serious problem for a country keen to develop more technology companies.

“If only five per cent of our graduates last year were in sciences, is it reasonable that we have an aspiration to place ourselves on the upper ladder of the value staircase?” asks Mr Wert. “This is just rhetoric unless we take action and we are able to produce a more balanced [system].”

Indeed, the lack of science graduates is part of a broader problem with Spain, says Andreas Schleicher, the deputy director in charge of education at the OECD. “There are many people who have an education that they cannot sell in the job market. There is a skill mismatch.”

Mr Wert’s solution is to strengthen the teaching of core subjects such as maths, sciences, reading, languages and history. Under the reform they would have to take up at least 50 per cent of school time.

There would also be more centralised tests on these subjects in a bid to iron out regional differences. Another pillar of the reform is the creation of a better, broader vocational training system, which would allow pupils as young as 15 to learn practical skills.

Like many experts, Mr Schleicher argues that many of Mr Wert’s proposals go in the right direction, but he warns that education reform is a long-term project and often hard to implement. “The problem in Spain is never the reform itself but the implementation,” he says.

But Mr Wert is determined to push his proposals through. “It is obvious that we need to refocus the whole system if we want to reduce the unemployment rate and prepare the country for a new economic model,” he says.

“Probably the only option we don’t have – in the education system as in other systems of Spanish society – is the status quo.”

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