This seems a highly jaundiced account of the OECD report. The OECD’s own UK press release on this report opens with the sentence “High public spending on child welfare and education in the UK is failing to produce results in many key areas.” (http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/21/6/43590251.pdf)
Spending more money than other countries is not in itself a good thing. We spend money in order to ‘buy’ better outcomes for children. But the link between education spending and results in OECD countries is virtually nonexistent. (See e.g. http://www.hundredpockets.com/2009/08/spending-success/)
Does LeftFootForward plan to address the problems facing education policymakers in the UK? Or just cherry-pick positive statistics from otherwise unpalatable reports?

Can you people please stop distorting facts to backup your twisted socialist doctrine.
And no, Cameron hasn’t ringfenced education. He’s committed the Tories -unwisely- to an EVEN MORE expensive part of the state apparatus, the NHS.
Once again I find myself debunking the plethora of untruths that are part of the fabric of the Great Socialist Deception.

Spending more money than other countries is not in itself a good thing. We spend money in order to ‘buy’ better outcomes for children. But the link between education spending and results in OECD countries is virtually nonexistent. (See e.g. http://www.hundredpockets.com/2009/08/spending-success/)

Does LeftFootForward plan to address the problems facing education policymakers in the UK? Or just cherry-pick positive statistics from otherwise unpalatable reports?