In this article about immigration Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper tells us "hi-tech businesses and universities are troubled that we aren't getting the skills and investment we need": http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/28/not-pretend-worried-immigration-ukip?CMP=twt_gu
How is this possible?
The United Kingdom is not Ghana or Azerbaijan where the education infrastructure is patchy and unreliable.
We spend billions and billions on education in this country.
So why is the money we push in at one end not turning out the skilled workers we need at the other end?
Is it possible Ms Cooper that the money is being siphoned off half-way by a lazy unionised teaching profession that is unwilling to adapt to the fast-moving requirements of the economy?
You can have expenditure on primary, secondary, further and higher education (as a taxpayer I am happy to fund this, even though I have no children of my own).
OR you can import skilled workers because our education system is so basic and low-cost we cannot turn out skilled people ourselves.
What you cannot do is spend taxes on a vastly expensive education system and then say it isn't working so we'll have to have hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year to fill the gap.
How is this possible?
The United Kingdom is not Ghana or Azerbaijan where the education infrastructure is patchy and unreliable.
We spend billions and billions on education in this country.
So why is the money we push in at one end not turning out the skilled workers we need at the other end?
Is it possible Ms Cooper that the money is being siphoned off half-way by a lazy unionised teaching profession that is unwilling to adapt to the fast-moving requirements of the economy?
You can have expenditure on primary, secondary, further and higher education (as a taxpayer I am happy to fund this, even though I have no children of my own).
OR you can import skilled workers because our education system is so basic and low-cost we cannot turn out skilled people ourselves.
What you cannot do is spend taxes on a vastly expensive education system and then say it isn't working so we'll have to have hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year to fill the gap.
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