Another news item yesterday alleges that schools now spend more on entering children for exams than on buying text books
I have long harboured a suspicion that our constant tendency to increase the amount of time that the young must spend in formal education (rather than in the labour market) is just a disguise for the fact that we cannot provide enough jobs. Just imagine what it would be like if the school leaving age were still 14
But even that is not enough & now we must add another layer of make-work, employing well-paid armies to monitor, measure & report on all this education
