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In a speech last June on his vision for post-Covid Britain, Boris Johnson promised to replace the caution of previous governments with a new Tory radicalism. “If we are to recover fully,” he declared, “this Covid crisis is the moment to address the problems in our country that we have failed to address for decades.”
Reform of social care, which had been “flunked” by governments for 30 years, would be tackled swiftly and boldly. There would also be more cash for the NHS, the education system and other public services which had been terribly hit – and exposed as unfit for the 21st century – by Covid. “We will not be responding to this crisis with what people call austerity. We are not going to cheese pare our way out of trouble,” he declared.
After two decades of devolution, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have significantly different, and often worse, outcomes in school and hospital performance compared with England, despite having much more money to spend. The analysis from the Institute for Government, published on Thursday, maps how public service performance has diverged across the UK from 1999 to the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Noting that spending per.
Nicola Sturgeon gets an F as spending splurge on schools fails to deliver better results
Independent review finds that maths and science attainment has nosedived, while extra funding for health has also not boosted performance
29 April 2021 • 12:01am
Spending per person in Scotland and Northern Ireland is 29 per cent higher than on comparable public services in England
Credit: Andy Buchanan/Reuters
Nicola Sturgeon’s spending splurge on health and education has not delivered better public services for Scots, new research has found.
A review by the independent Institute for Government (IfG) found that while spending per pupil was nearly 10 per cent higher north of the border, attainment in maths and science among Scottish 15-year-olds had nosedived in comparison to their English peers.
Reflecting on faculty who have taught, supported, and enabled their transition to clinical learning, second-year medical students honored four outstanding Geisel School of Medicine faculty with Preclinical Teaching Awards.
A total of 64 nominations representing first- and second-year preclinical faculty, were whittled down to four winners through a combination of votes from Medical Education Committee Student Representatives and the Class of 2023.
Larry Myers, PhD
Nominated across all four award categories more than 25 times and described as a “champion for students” who “pours his soul” into teaching, Larry Myers, PhD, is recipient of the Distinguished Educator Award. Myers directs and teaches the Foundations course. Many students noted, he “… always goes above and beyond … and is a relentless advocate on their behalf. This award recognizes a faculty or staff member who goes above and beyond his/her role as an educator in an effort to help support and guide stu
The report comes as the Scottish Nationalists face scrutiny in the Holyrood election campaign over educational and health outcomes after 14 years in government, and as the Welsh Labour government’s record on education and health, after more than two decades in charge, has been criticised during the campaign for next week’s Senedd elections.
The report suggests that “Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence has not (so far) lived up to its name”. The paper reveals that when pupils last sat Pisa tests (a programme of international student assessment) in 2017-18, Scotland spent 9% more per pupil than England, but Scottish pupils achieved significantly lower results than English pupils in maths and science tests.