A mountain to climb
If Wales wants a tiger economy, it first needs better schools
CARWYN JONES has a bone to pick with an old Welsh tourism advertisement. It featured a hiker on the peak of Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales, and boasted that he would receive no pesky work calls (his phone being out of range). “It made us look like the middle of nowhere,” complains the first minister, “—completely the wrong image.” Mr Jones’s spell as leader of the devolved Welsh government, which began in 2009, has been one long attempt to shake off such impressions.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “A mountain to climb”
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