John Ashmore has a piece in CAPX about a report from the Tony Blair Institute. Somebody has to read them I suppose, but even the name 'Tony Blair Institute' is enough to make a chap cringe.
A report out this week from the Tony Blair Institute says doing so would ‘significantly’ boost productivity and economic growth by increasing the number of skilled graduates.
In the foreword, former Universities Minister Jo Johnson argues that this would put us on a par with high-innovation economies like South Korea and Japan, where HE participation rates are already well above the 53% in the UK.
The intentions behind these proposals are clearly noble: who would not want an economy full to the brim with highly skilled workers competing for well paid, fulfilling work? It’s also worth noting that this is very much a long-term plan, with the aim of 60% of young people in HE by 2030, and 70% by 2040.
Blair reminds me of Covid - apparently impossible to shake off.
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Madness. Of course had the Socialists and pink Tories really wanted to improve social mobility and meritocracy then they would not have done away with Grammar Schools.
Although I guess that if any Tom, Abdul or Harriet can have a degree then all will be equal (equally poor and unprepared for life).
"Blair reminds me of Covid - apparently impossible to shake off."
Just as valuable as shit on your shoe . . .
"Blair reminds me of Covid - apparently impossible to shake off"
Covid has mutated to become pretty harmless - Bliar is just as dangerous behind the scenes as he was centre stage...
When Blair plucked a 50% figure out of the air, all he did was take the kids off the unemployment figures, and dump the costs on the parents, so he could spend the money on his normal wasteful socialist idiocy.
Now he wants to point his grubby finger at the Tories and make another 20% suffer, but this time he hopes he won't be blamed.
He's a duplicitous schemer, and only has his own pockets to line at everyone else's expense.
I agree with Scrobs. Tony Blair knows nothing about the British working class, mind you neither do the Education Planners. If they did they wouldn't have got rid of the selective school system - but that was for doctrinaire socialist reasons - wait, they don't know anything about the human race at all!
If they spent a fraction of the money on serious and sensible practical skills training - stuff that's needed like plumbers, technicians, builders, engineers etc we might achieve something.
I suppose, in this august company, that I dare not suggest Blair be rounded up in a dawn raid, tried and executed?
DJ - it certainly is madness. It will lead to large numbers of graduates with below average IQ.
Jannie - and that has to be hosed off at close range.
microdave - that's one thing which bothers me about Labour gaining power again - the influence of Blair behind the scenes/ He'll try.
Scrobs and Tammly - yes that's what he is, a duplicitous schemer. No interest whatever in those daft enough to vote for him.
Woodsy - even doctors could be trained via apprenticeships. Start off as a hospital porter, move on to nursing with some time off for the academic stuff. I see no reason why it wouldn't work.
James - or just tried with its consequent exposure.
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