Should public money be paid to private companies to manage education services?
You said: I found Thursday’s programme quite insulting because everyone on the panel seemed to think that all the teachers we have now are useless and as long as we get all these amazing young things to join the profession instead of doing big money and prestige jobs everything will be all right. Anne Brimacombe, Birmingham The panel member correctly pointed out that private education is a matter of choice: those who can afford it do so, at no cost to the government or to state schools. To this, the woman in the audience repeatedly shouted ‘garbage!’ without elaborating why. There is clearly room for both a public and private sector. Rick Dickerson, London It’s all very well and good paying teachers who have reached the threshold an extra 2000 and offering incentives to new teachers coming into the profession, but it is the teachers who are in the middle that are in the greatest financial hardship having lost student grants while at university and having to pay back large student loans
