Britain Quote by Nigel Short

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as…

— Richard Rogers

A university education is a privilege, but we should be proud that in Britain it is also a right, no matter what your income…

— David Lammy

Rather than allowing students and teachers to celebrate their success, some would rather we measure success in Britain in terms of failure; that our…

— Wes Streeting

Labour politicians ask 'Why do so few children from poor backgrounds go to university?' Well, I'll tell them. It's because they don't go to…

— Damian Green

There is no place in world where you can do higher education better than in the UK.

— Jo Johnson

Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these fail to…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Our system of student finance has delivered the chance of a university education to vastly more people than ever before, and made it more…

— Nick Boles

I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of specialized areas.…

— Stephen Harper

There is no better system in the world than the U.K. education system that offers better value for money.

— Jo Johnson

For decades, British governments - including the Blair-Brown government in which I was an education minister - have done a good job of enhancing…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate…

— Bill Gates

Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system.…

— Michael Craig-Martin