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The Department of Education and Human Resource Utilisation has called for another shake-up of Britain's primary education system following a damning report into standards of literacy among teenagers and young adults.
The report was commissioned by the Home Office in the wake of a number of security foul-ups stemming from the fact that almost fifty per cent of younger operatives in the public security sector are unable to read an identity card display correctly.
The Department of Public Security blames under-funding and lack of adequate training for the problem, and says that privatisation may hold the answer.
"Private security companies are much better resourced than public services," said spokesperson Gabbitas Megafrat. "They can afford to hire educated people to process the information that comes up on the computer screens. The public sector tends to get left with the dregs."
The Government is thought to be reluctant to further extend privatisation of national security, following the recent embarrassing revelation that, a year after the partial flotation of MI5 on the open market, the Chinese government had acquired a controlling interest, which had been sold to it by the United States.
The Department of Public Security currently employs nearly 75,000 young people as trainee security operatives, who spend their working days cross-checking computer printouts for correlations between the identity card numbers of suspicious individuals and the purchase of suspect items including sugar, weedkiller, nails, items of cutlery and books.
Such cross-checking used to be done by computer, but the DPS computer banks are already overstretched because of the amount of information that needs to be stored in them. New computer banks are being constructed, but the recent problems with the electricity supply and price increases by NatPowerGen mean that they will probably not become operational for about another five years. By that time, if present trends continue, the increasing estimated required informational resource capacity for the UK population will have made the new computers obsolete.
Education minister Kelvin McKenzie today gave a "categorical pledge" to carry out another thoroughgoing review of primary school procedures - the fourth such review in six months - and a major tightening of standards. By the end of the year, Mr McKenzie promised, as much as sixty per cent of Britain's primary school teaching staff would have lost their jobs, committed suicide, or both.
The Department of Education and Human Resource Utilisation has called for another shake-up of Britain's primary education system following a damning report into standards of literacy among teenagers and young adults.
The report was commissioned by the Home Office in the wake of a number of security foul-ups stemming from the fact that almost fifty per cent of younger operatives in the public security sector are unable to read an identity card display correctly.
The Department of Public Security blames under-funding and lack of adequate training for the problem, and says that privatisation may hold the answer.
"Private security companies are much better resourced than public services," said spokesperson Gabbitas Megafrat. "They can afford to hire educated people to process the information that comes up on the computer screens. The public sector tends to get left with the dregs."
The Government is thought to be reluctant to further extend privatisation of national security, following the recent embarrassing revelation that, a year after the partial flotation of MI5 on the open market, the Chinese government had acquired a controlling interest, which had been sold to it by the United States.
The Department of Public Security currently employs nearly 75,000 young people as trainee security operatives, who spend their working days cross-checking computer printouts for correlations between the identity card numbers of suspicious individuals and the purchase of suspect items including sugar, weedkiller, nails, items of cutlery and books.
Such cross-checking used to be done by computer, but the DPS computer banks are already overstretched because of the amount of information that needs to be stored in them. New computer banks are being constructed, but the recent problems with the electricity supply and price increases by NatPowerGen mean that they will probably not become operational for about another five years. By that time, if present trends continue, the increasing estimated required informational resource capacity for the UK population will have made the new computers obsolete.
Education minister Kelvin McKenzie today gave a "categorical pledge" to carry out another thoroughgoing review of primary school procedures - the fourth such review in six months - and a major tightening of standards. By the end of the year, Mr McKenzie promised, as much as sixty per cent of Britain's primary school teaching staff would have lost their jobs, committed suicide, or both.
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