Why is the education system in Scotland so mutch better than in England??
I don’t know the structure of the education system in Scotland but I understand that students often go to university at 17 (rather than 18 in the rest of Britain) but Scottish university students have to study for at least 4 years. In regards to the general philosophy of both countries, I would say that England has embraced the ‘progressive’ ideas popular in the 1960s more. The Labour education minister Anthony Crosland famously vowed to get rid of every (expletive) grammar school. (Oxbridge educated people should be able to make their points without swearing) I went to an ex-grammar school in England (now a comprehensive)- thankfully, it still respected tradition whilst having impressive modern additions too. It has become something of a cliche that the British are bad at mathematics and spelling and a quick check in any chatroom seems to support the theory that a fair proportion of the English seem strangely proud to be casually foul mouthed, without the advantage of wit that might g
