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?
Thank you Douglas.
Where do you stand on grammar schools? Wouldn't we be a lot better off opening MORE.
Posted by: old school tory | March 13, 2008 at 11:46
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.
Posted by: Machiavelli's Understudy | March 13, 2008 at 13:49
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.
Posted by: JP Floru | March 19, 2008 at 07:55