“The family is important in creating the best environment for young people to flourish.” Some 97 per cent of respondents in a recent Bheard poll agreed with this statement; 84 per cent believed that the family is the bedrock of a successful society; 75 per cent believed the family was more important than schools, employers, […]
For the bottom third in the United Kingdom, schooling is not good enough. International tests show poorer students are less likely to succeed than their more advantaged peers. After years of compulsory state schooling, 16 per cent of adults in England are functionally illiterate, predominantly from the lowest tertile. These problems are not recent. The […]
Since 2000, when Africa was branded “the hopeless continent” by The Economist, its countries have (albeit with marked exceptions) made significant progress in human and economic development. Real average incomes have risen over 50 per cent, life expectancy has increased by nearly 20 per cent and infant mortality has nearly halved. Those looking for the […]
Jeremy Corbyn has come up with an interesting new policy platform: tax the moderately wealthy to give to…the fairly well-off. He wants to impose VAT on private school fees so as to fund school meals for all primary school children. Children from poorer families already get free school meals. So that means giving free school […]
“Comprehensive schools have largely replaced selection by ability with selection by class and house price.” These were the words of the Labour education reformer Andrew Adonis in 1998. And two decades later, selection by house price remains just as prevalent within the UK’s education system, if not more so. A recent study by Teach First suggested […]
Lefties dominate academia. As far as headlines go, that is “Dog bites man” stuff. Nonetheless, an Adam Smith Institute paper reporting this finding has caused quite a stir. The report’s author, Noah Carl, looked at surveys of academic opinion from the 1960s and 1980s and compared them to a recent Times Higher Education survey which found […]
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