The news that 256 schools are now failing to give their pupils an adequate education, even by our currently low standards, is as damning an indictment as anything of Blair’s decade. How on earth are these 3 million pupils to succeed in the knowledge economy’ without an education?
Despite all the money that Blair has poured into education, taking per-pupil spending to about £5,000, standards have not improved anywhere near as much as they should because the structures are all wrong. This has left us in a situation where Turkey is the only OECD country with as large a gap in educational attainment between its private and public sectors.
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