Fraser Nelson Fraser Nelson

So much for education, education, education | 29 November 2007

How well is school literacy doing under Labour? The international PIRLS study shows England has plunged from 3rd to 19th in the league tables between 2001 and 2006 – a staggering dropped exceeded only by Morocco and Romania. This is how well we’re preparing for globalisation. Doubling the education budget has not, after all, worked.

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Fraser Nelson is a Times columnist and a former editor of The Spectator.

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