British education and how I would fix it

In a previous article, I used the BBC’s 3-part documentary series chronicling an experiment in which Chinese teachers took on a class of British kids for a month, to describe the ways in which I believe British education is broken. As the series concluded, we saw that the Chinese teachers, despite battling nothing short of mutiny among their students, achieved results 10% above the rest of the year group in examinations set by an independent research body. It was a slap in the face to the previously uber-confident headmaster Neil Strowger, who predicted the failure of the Chinese school with alacrity. His response summarised everything objectionable about education today.

British education and how it is broken

Why has it taken a BBC documentary, and a group of visiting teachers from China to bring their brand of education to Hampshire-based Bohunt School, to show us why our education system is so utterly broken? Why don’t we get it?