While welcoming the Labour Party’s policies for state education, this contribution locates them in a wider historical perspective and argues that proposals for a National Education Service now need to be part of a much wider range of policies for young people. Young people have been the group worst affected in the years since the economic downturn with hourly wages and weekly earnings falling fastest. Despite being the best qualified, this generation will be the first to be worse off than their parents and by far the most indebted.
While welcoming the Labour Party’s policies for state education, this contribution locates them in a wider historical perspective and argues that proposals for a National Education Service now need to be part of a much wider range of policies for young people. Young people have been the group worst affected in the years since the economic downturn with hourly wages and weekly earnings falling fastest. Despite being the best qualified, this generation will be the first to be worse off than their parents and by far the most indebted.
Education, Economy and Society 