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Education investment is headmasters mantra
Education investment is headmasters mantra
Gordon Brown sounded like a Victorian headmaster — all high moral tone and hard work. To judge by the deluge of initiatives in the Pre-Budget Report and the weight of documents, Browns Britain is going to be a very serious, and busy, place.
Brownism has two main strands: social injustice and inequality, and Britains place in a globalised world. Noting how every year Britain adds 75,000 engineers and computer scientists, while India and China add half a million, he argued: Economies like ours have no choice but to out-innovate and outperform competitors by the excellence of our science and education, the quality of infrastructure and environment, and by our flexibility and our levels of creativity and entrepreneurship.
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