Liberals need to understand we already have a two-tier education system. Majority will leave school, currently, with the inability to do basic maths and suffer from poor English skills; either the exam system is too easy or broken.
If there is a problem then it should be addressed.
Most parents, employers and universities foresaw a crisis in literacy and numeracy. Society should be waking up to this before it has a major impact, especially within the wider of economy. Britain cannot compete if workers cannot read or write proper English and solve basic mathematical problems.
A mature party would help to provide a solution, not exploit the situation for political gain or to seek a ‘separate identity’ from the Tories.
danielfurr
Okay, let’s give Gove a bit of credit for noticing that the current system isn’t perfect.
And then let’s take that credit away again for him coming up with an absolutely idiotic solution that is based more on his nostalgia for the ’50s rather than on any actual evidence on what would improve the system.