The original statue was pulled down and thrown into Bristol Harbour during Black Lives Matter protestsOfficials at the Cabinet Office have fought for years to prevent any receipts and evidence for the PDCA coming to light. A golden age?

The role of schools has also broadened in a way that would make many inner-city schools unrecognisable from a generation ago - providing social care as well as education. His consultancy, the London-based Tony Blair Associates (TBA), emulates the New York partnership Kissinger Associates, which was founded by Henry Kissinger, the former national security adviser to President Nixon. How the world's oldest clove tree defied an empire It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more.

But have test and exam results shown improvements? EDUCATION SINCE 1997, ENGLAND

By the end of the decade, education will be receiving 5.6% of GDP - which compares to the 5.5% that is the current average for education in industrialised countries. So how much has his 10 years in office achieved for schools, colleges and universities in England?

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Can A-level results really improve year after year? Has the investment brought the promised advances? There are now about 35,000 more teachers than in 1997 - reducing pupil-teacher ratios and class sizes in primary and secondary. Higher education has been a consistently thorny area for the Blair governments. You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment.The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium.
Whether the money has been wisely spent is another question - but the cash has certainly been made available, with the government now spending almost £1.2bn on education every week. Extended schools with breakfast and after-school clubs have begun to blur the boundaries between education, childcare and social services. Local education authorities are now children's services. They went on to beat the West Indies in Manchester and therefore win the series 2-1Demonstrators protest outside the Tate Modern in London over proposed job losses in the wake of the Covid-19 lockdown. And the target of getting 50% of youngsters into university by the end of the decade now looks unlikely to achieved. The group believe that the emergency money provided by the government to culture-based organisations should be used to retain all jobs and that any other use of the funding is unfair.

Why Royal Ballet principal Sergei Polunin quit In primary school tests in 1997, taken in the weeks before the general election, 63% of 11-year-olds reached the expected levels in English, 62% in maths and 69% in science. As the Blair years progressed, the structures of education - how schools were organised and managed - became an increasingly important target, particularly as attention shifted from primary to secondary schools. This showed that only 45.1% of pupils were ending compulsory education with these qualifications - up from 35.6% in 1997, although part of the change is that a much wider range of qualifications is now included among the "good GCSEs". It was accused of trying to run the country's schools from a photocopier in Westminster - and there are still frequent complaints of "initiative fatigue" and an overload of paperwork for head teachers. The biggest backbench rebellion faced by his government was over variable tuition fees - but now that the principle has been established, they seem set to become permanent fixture of university life.


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