Economic woe could end inequality in the education system | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk October 17, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , trackbackFrancis Beckett's take on how, in the long term, "Britain's economic woes could be good news for our schools". Wonder what he makes of business/industry links with universities. Or maybe we can guess:
"First, they will decouple business from academies…
Second, they will weaken the stranglehold business has over education. It is essentially to appease business that the government seeks to divide children at 11 or 14 into successes and failures, expanding the number of schools that are allowed to select some or all of their pupils. It damages the children, but it is convenient for their future employers.
Top business people will have less time to spend dictating how schools are run. And if they have any shame, they will be less inclined to consider themselves qualified to lecture to schools. Just possibly, Gordon Brown and his ministers will be less inclined to suppose that anything the public sector does, the private sector is bound to do better."
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