Education

• More power, authority and responsibilities to head teachers – document ‘gold standard’ school regimes for other Heads to emulate.
• Teach children to think and to control their impulses, using mechanisms such as CoRT, to improve behaviour and learning.
• Bad schools should be allowed to die.
• Good schools should be encouraged to spawn branches, but not expand excessively on a single site to maintain sense of individuality and community.
• Private/Public schools should retain charity status and be eligible to receive voucher funding unless they are religious schools that exclude multi-faith enrollment.
• Fund and spread British English training worldwide via British Council, as Alliance Francais does.
• Allow work at 14 as apprentices part-funded by the state as a form of on-job training, but only in selective areas such as plumbing, electrical, engineering.
• Significantly more pay for the best teachers, but unions must accept that sub-standard teachers must be fired.
• Universities should be arranged so that the same revenue can be gained regardless of foreign or local students.
• GCSE’s and ‘A’-Levels to be graded with respect to their true purpose – of deciding relative abilities in each year so that job and university applications can be more rational and fair.