Challenges for our education system [timesonline.co.uk]
- Published: 28 April 2010
Sir, We are all committed to improving education. It is an issue central to the future success of our nation, and it demands insight and dedication from government and from every one of us.
Significant advances were made under Andrew Adonis, former minister for education. His vision and energy forged the academies programme that helped to bridge the gap between our finest independent schools and some of the poorest performing schools. The academies policy, which encouraged innovation and assimilating best-business practices, has now lost its focus and become burdened with bureaucratic box ticking. The Government insists that results are improving and that the latest school leavers are the best educated yet. But the reality is quite different. The last Institute of Directors education survey found that just a quarter of businesses think that young people are well prepared for the workplace. Only a third thinks that the quality of school education has improved since 1997, despite a huge increase in spending.
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