ABSTRACT
The quality of British education concerns parents, employers, politicians and students. School inspectors have criticized standards in English, Mathematics, Technology and writing and reading skills. In 1997, the World Economic Forum claimed that Britain ranked 32nd out of 53 countries in the quality of its primary and secondary schools. A 1997 National Institute of Economic and Social Research study showed that British thirteen-to-fourteen-year-olds were one year behind most European countries and even further behind Japan, Korea and Singapore.
