Observations of the UK and its Earthly neighbours
Yesterday Sir Kevan Collins quit his role as Bloke in Charge of Fixing Education Post-Covid. He was disgruntled at the mere £1.4 billion the government proposed to spend on resolving all education problems caused by the pandemic. He himself had done a good proposal, and reckoned the cost to be £15 billion. I don’t see …
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Hail Gavin Williamson, who will save us from the evils of the dreaded ‘Algorithm’. And yea he shall make the teachers do a load of work, deliver us unto school result inconsistency and shall inflate the grades. Eh why? Last year was an inexcusable exam car crash, and it’s nice to see this year we’ll …
The Resolution Foundation reckons over 4 million were on some kind of furlough at the start of the year, and that 1.9 million have been like that or unemployed for over six months. After that long you lose the skills and habits to just walk into a new job. It’s not getting better any time …