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March 13, 2008

Set schools free

One thing you can depend on politicians to do is to make lots of promises about education.  Somehow, though, their proposals always seem to mean giving them -  Westminster politicians and officials - more control; ring-fenced school budgets, tinkering with the curriculum, more central diktat .... 

Perhaps education could be improved by giving politicians and officials less control?  That seems to be the gist of this thought-provoking article by Anthony Seldon

If politicians ran supermarkets, there would be a waiting list for bananas and catchment areas for breakfast cereals.  So why do we let them so mismanage our young people's future?      

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Thank you Douglas.

Where do you stand on grammar schools? Wouldn't we be a lot better off opening MORE.

One person I know thinks you're bonkers, but I can only go off what I've seen and heard from you so far, which is far more sound than the shower who sit on the Party's platform.

I never heard a good argument against school vouchers in my life. Can anybody give me one?

Every child in this country could go to the public school of his or her choice; but somehow our politicians never dared to introduce vouchers.

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