Teacher’s turn
GORDON BROWN was able to put his money where Tony Blair's mouth usually is. Education was promised the biggest sustained increase in spending for 20 years. Total expenditure on education in the United Kingdom will rise by 5.4% a year in real terms between 2001-2 and 2003-4, an increase of almost £12 billion over the three-year cycle of the spending review. But the money comes with plenty of strings attached, in the shape of the Treasury's vaunted public-service agreements.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Teacher’s turn”
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