Bruce Anderson

Passport to Eton?

Bruce Anderson says the Tories’ revolutionary new education policy will devolve power to schools and parents

issue 24 April 2004

Bruce Anderson says the Tories’ revolutionary new education policy will devolve power to schools and parents

In 1874, Disraeli told the House of Commons that ‘Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.’ Over the subsequent decades, few senior Tories would have disagreed — yet hardly any of them can be said to have put those words into practice.

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