Part
4 - Education
Corbyn reiterated Labour’s
policy of free and universal education as a public good. Far from
being a ‘bourgeois bribe’ to middle-class kids, as the Guardian
has laughably called it, this policy is about creating a society
geared around meeting public needs, rather than the private profit of
a few. We must therefore open up the education system to society and
run it to meet the needs of society.
This is an excellent policy which
we can implement relatively easily. What is not so easy however is to
connect this education system with the wider economy.
Despite the exorbitant fees, we
still have the most educated young people in history. This has led to
a generation of young job-seekers and workers who are far more
educated than their jobs need them to be. The phenomenon of
philosophy and history graduates spending years doing odd-jobs in the
gig economy is all too familiar.
If we are to extend education
still further, we need to make sure it doesn’t lead to even more
highly educated unemployed and underemployed people. Hence, we need
to control the wider economy and make sure it is invested in
according to a plan to maximise the potential of our workers and meet
the needs of the whole of society.
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