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30th July 2009: The UK’s education system is ‘extinguishing valuable assets in children of all abilities’
The UK’s education system is ‘extinguishing valuable assets in children of all abilities’ and needs to refocus onto ‘SEED skills’ – including enterprise, as well as ‘grit and discipline’ – a new report by the Young Foundation argues.
The report suggests that Governments have successively failed to address the importance of these skills and promotes a ‘four-pronged’ strategy to help solve the problem, including establishing a £50-100m ‘Learning Innovation Fund’ to pioneer new teaching methods, the extension of existing best practice and more support for early years education and interventions.
See Grit: The skills for success and how they are grown (The Young Foundation – pdf: 761KB) for more information.
