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Do UK.gov wonks understand sci-tech skills gap? MPs dish out Parliamentary kicking

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Re: Stream the schools not the children

" The top 10% will succeed anywhere. It is the middle 30/40% who suffer most because they will already have been written off."

That may depend on the area. Teaching bright pupils is intellectually demanding of teachers. Too often the the bright ones are left on their own to coast - while the teacher tries to get the rest of the class to the minimum standard required for government statistics.

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