One can hardly listen to a British news bulletin – or a range of other programmes – for 10 minutes without some tedious and fruitless discussion about education arising, be it with respect to five-year-olds (if not the younger), mature students or any level in between – and we still have the habitual debate on the validity or otherwise of the summer examination results to look forward to.
Yet, when I tune in to state-run or independent continental stations, this issue seldom crops up, as was the case here in my youth.
Why should that be, I wonder?
DAVID DIMENT Riverside Court Oxford
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