12 June 2007

Maybe, after all, we're not such a bad wee country?

David Aaronovitch in The Times comments on the studies of children's development:
Children from Bangladeshi families were a year behind white children in tests measuring “school readiness”; West Indian and African children were six times more likely than whites to be behind. But Scottish children were two months ahead of the UK average in “school readiness”.

And
... crudely, the message of these studies is that we should now pay the Scots to bring up our children, but let the Indians feed them.

It's worth reading the whole article.

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