Here are two
brief pieces of information from BBC articles that could be used to create short questions, or which could be explored in greater detail.
United Airlines incident: Why do airlines overbook?
Overbooking on flights happens all the time. Empty seats cost airlines money, so they offset the number of passengers who miss flights by selling too many tickets.Of the 613 million people who flew on major US carriers in 2015, 46,000 were involuntarily denied boarding, according to data from the Department of Transportation.
Question: Is that a lot of people?
Answer: It depends how you look at it.
In
percentage terms, it is 0.008%
613 million
people is about 10 times the population of the UK, whereas 46,000 is the population
of a town.
613 million people
is about a tenth of the population of the world. 46,000 is the population of 23 large
secondary schools
Social care system 'beginning to collapse' as 900 carers quit every day
More than 900 adult social care workers a day quit their job in England last year, new figures reveal. 60% of those leaving a job left working in the adult social care sector altogether. The average full-time frontline care worker earned £7.69 an hour, or £14,800 a year.
Question
1: What percentage of the total
workforce leaves that sector each year?
Question
2: How much do you have to work to
earn the stated figure?
Answer
1: We need to estimate how many
workers there are in total. I predict
that of the 65 million people in the country about one in 20 need some form of
care. Maybe each carer can look after 3
people? That gives about 1 million
carers.
About 900 per day is 900 x 365 per year, which is approx.
300,000 who leave their job, and 180,000 (60% of them) leave the sector. 180,000 out of 1 million leave each year, so
about 18% (approx 1/6) leave each year.
The
article states: Data
gathered by the charity Skills for Care, shows that in 2015-16
there were more than 1.3 million people employed in the adult social care
sector in England.
Answer
2: This is for 1925 hours of work. I
don’t know whether the newspaper has taken the hourly figure and multiplied by
38-hour weeks over 50 weeks in the year, or whether this is genuinely what most
carers do.
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