Education under Labour

Tuesday, 8 December, 2009

Mike Baker again has a nice reflective piece on the ONS report of education under Labour over the last 12 years (I can’t find the right ONS report though). And, as ever, it depends what measure you use to define “success”. In this instance its “productivity”, that is comparing the increase in inputs to the increase in outputs. In this instance the ratio has remained static meaning there has been no gain in productivity, but there have been overall increases in both inputs and outputs. And it is the latter that is most important with it being increasingly likely that as standards improve each incremental increase in outputs requires more substantial inputs. Or, to put it another way, once you have a reasonable education system it becomes increasingly more expensive to gain marginal improvements.8

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