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| The World of Work |
Schools have a role in preparing students for society, and currently society requires the vast majority of students to be able to earn money to live. As a prerequisite to obtaining a job to earn this money, employers require a university degree and beyond. Most schools require students to try to obtain as many qualifications as possible but this is neither a requirement of the university nor of the employer. Once accepted at university previous qualifications usually become irrelevant as the higher qualification takes precedence.
It would therefore be sufficient for university entry to have obtained the minimum number of subjects, but to ensure entry the passes would have to be at the highest level. In competitive society a university wants students who will gain good degrees. Knowing a student is from an ecosophy school with a motivation to obtain a degree is likely to encourage acceptance as compared with a state school education where students have progressed to a level of success whose major obstacle is likely to be the discipline in the school.
It would therefore be sufficient that a student has obtained 5 GCSEs including English and maths, and 3 A levels. Maths is not always required but is seen favourably, and it is also the subject which best develops reasoning skills. 3 top A levels would then be required. Subject-wise it is likely that students will have studied ecology or some related subject, and IT. Whilst being more expensive, science subjects would be preferable, as diversity of choice would not likely to be financially possible - and low as a priority. Economics might be introduced but economic laws such as free trade as studied on curricula bear little relationship to the free trade practised by the WTO and other conquistadores.
Stress is a fundamental fact of working life that needs addressing educationally as previously discussed. Whilst workplace stress is not the only stresses we hope to address, without strategies for coping with such stress Ecosophy schools will not have achieved any of its goals as following the Natural Path initially requires survival.
Stress in the Workplace
