Increasing access to private education will add billions to growth
The UK’s average annual growth rate between 1960 and 2007 would have been almost 1 percentage point higher had it matched the Netherlands’ long-term level of independent school enrolment since 1960....
View ArticleThere’s bad ideas and then there’s really bad ideas
And this idea of a Royal College of Teaching falls into the category of really bad ideas: This time it is from Labour’s Tristram Hunt, in his plan to introduce teacher licensing. The implication is...
View ArticleFree Education? Don’t make the situation worse!
We love to moan about the system – how it conditions our thought, places expectations upon us, is inflexible and ill-suited to the modern context etc. – and that moaning isn’t limited purely to...
View ArticleGetting educated – like it’s the 21st century
Innovative independent institutions are for those who can afford it and the rest will make do with the stagnant state school system: a status quo forthcoming generations should accept no more. An...
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Single sex schooling: three recent papers
Nearly all state schools are co-educational, but most independent schools are single sex. Three academic papers I came across in the last few months suggest that the education authorities might have...
View ArticleCelebrating the success of the free school system
This is a welcome success in the free school system that we should celebrate: The government’s flagship free schools programme has been dealt a blow with the announcement that a third school is to...
View ArticleSchool choice: first evidence to prove long-term benefits
A report released this month by Victor Lavy of CESifo is the first evidence of its kind to prove the long-term social and economic benefits of school choice. Up until now, research conducted has...
View ArticleCMRE’s Friedman Lecture on school choice
The Centre for Market Reform of Education’s Inaugural Friedman lecture kicked off with success last week amid a plethora of events marking international school choice week. Sir Julian Le Grand...
View ArticleEconomic Nonsense: 33. Things like healthcare and education are too important...
Healthcare and education are not only important; they are vital. Most of us would prefer to live in a society that so organized itself that these services were accessible to all its citizens. This is...
View ArticleEconomic Nonsense: 47. The state should pay for university education because...
University education benefits society in several ways. A skilled, university-educated workforce can boost economic growth and make society richer than it would have been without them. Less well-off...
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