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?
