4. Using material from item A and elsewhere‚ assess the claim that the main aim of education policies in the last 25 years has been to create an education market. (20 marks) In the past 25 years‚ many sociologists have stated that the main purpose of the educations system was to create an education market. Stated in item A‚ was stated that many policies such as league tables and open enrolments were introduced to help create the education market. Item A also suggests that others may take a different
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ĐÁP ÁN THI IELTS NGÀY 12-03-2013 Some people think college or university is the best way to get successful career. Others claim that people should leave school to get a job and experience it. Discuss a. College or university - Provide knowledge and skill - Stimulating environment - Develop relationship and social skills - Research experience b. Get a job - Practical experience - Figure what is needed in their training - Gain quicker success - Some
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Most philosophers think that you cannot know that something is true without believing it is true. If you do not believe that a fish cannot breathe out of water‚ then you do not know it. Believing is a requirement of knowing. That said‚ how justified must our beliefs be to constitute knowledge? How valuable is this knowledge in which we believe in? I suppose in our society today‚ the value of knowledge at most times is dependent on the justifications that we give it. It would seem reasonable to
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Exploring Psychology Memory is a constructive and dynamic system rather than a passive mechanism for recording external information. Evaluate this claim‚ making reference to research findings. The concept that the memory is a constructive and dynamic system was originally introduced by Sir Frederic Bartlett‚ in the 1920’s. According to Bartlett‚ social factors influence one’s ability to remember‚ and in turn‚ can either change a person’s perception of a specific memory or distort the original
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Memory is a constructive and dynamic system rather than a passive mechanism for recording external information. Evaluate this claim‚ making reference to research findings. In order to evaluate this claim it is necessary to look at some of the research that has been carried out on memory. Most of the relevant research findings support the theory that memory is indeed a constructive and dynamic system but how much of what we store in our memory is down to active and conscious energy and how much
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Many definitions of comedy claim that at the end of the play a happy conclusion will have emerged. How far do you think Educating Rita has a happy conclusion? Educating Rita is a play by Willie Russell‚ set in 1983. It is a semi-autobiographical play about Rita‚ a young working class Liverpool hairdresser who decides wants to gain an education using an Open University. Her tutor is the disillusioned and alcoholic Frank‚ who teaches at the Open University to pay for his drinking habits. Rita decides
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‘Is it more important to discover new ways of thinking about what is already known‚ then to discover new data or facts.’ To what extend would you agree with this claim? This claim can be interpreted in different ways‚ so it needs to be defined by what I personally believe it means in order to come to a conclusion. By the term ‘new ways of thinking’ I understand having the same information as before but finding a new way of seeing or using it. With the term ‘discover new data/facts’ I understand
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When mankind created vocabulary little did they know of its complications in the 21st century world. Knowledge acquisition and vocabulary has a unique relationship‚ which is directly linked to Language as a Way of Knowing. The claim discusses whether our vocabulary is a simple reaction to our previous knowledge or is our knowledge acquisition shaped by the vocabulary we know. On one hand‚ our vocabulary had become so influential that our world is completely built and dependent on it‚ which is the
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There are many advertisements directed at children such as snacks‚ toys and other goods. Parents argue that children are under pressure. Advertisers claim that the advertisements provide useful information. What is your opinion? If you are careful enough‚ it is easy for you to find some advertisements‚ like snacks‚ toys and other goods‚ using children as selling target. When referring to that kind of phenomena‚ many parents hold their worries that children are under pressure. When children
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Discuss the claim there is a lot to gain from studying a topic in psychology from more than one perspective. Drawing on our understanding of language and meaning as well as the psychology of sex and gender. Different psychological perspectives lead to different theories providing diverse insights into the same issue i.e. language and meaning. They focus their enquiry in different ways and consequently have dissimilar objects of knowledge. Each perspective asks different questions‚ use different
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