Education and health Archives

Government health services are failing patients

8 January 2009

Healthcare

Government health services are failing patients

8 January 2009

State-dominated healthcare systems are failing the poor and chronically sick. And Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is one of the worst … Continue reading

The government’s decision on top-up payments is welcome

5 November 2008

Healthcare

The government’s decision on top-up payments is welcome

John Spiers

5 November 2008

One of the commonest complaints about the NHS is: “I’ve paid in all my life, so why can’t I have…” … Continue reading

Individual health savings accounts will improve access and performance

29 October 2008

Healthcare

Individual health savings accounts will improve access and performance

John Spiers

29 October 2008

A key issue in individual access to healthcare is who decides who shall get what, when and how. Which economic … Continue reading

Mandelson should refer NHS monopolies to the Office of Fair Trading

15 October 2008

Healthcare

Mandelson should refer NHS monopolies to the Office of Fair Trading

John Spiers

15 October 2008

How radical will the new Lord Mandelson be in seeking to reinvigorate the ‘New Labour’ brand? With the regulatory levers … Continue reading

Mutual health insurance in India

3 September 2008

Healthcare

Mutual health insurance in India

Philip Booth

3 September 2008

The prevailing Western NGO view of how we should solve problems such as lack of health and education provision in … Continue reading

Overschooled but Undereducated: How the crisis in education is jeopardizing our adolescents

11 November 2010

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Overschooled but Undereducated: How the crisis in education is jeopardizing our adolescents

11 November 2010

An IEA Book Launch

02/12/2009
18:30

The Institute of Economic Affairs invites you to attend: An IEA Book Launch ‘Overschooled but Undereducated:How the crisis in education is jeopardizing our adolescents’ (published by Continuum International) by John Abbott Wednesday 2nd December 2009 6.30pm – 8.00pm (with brief remarks by the Author at 7.00pm) 2 Lord North Street, Westminster, SW1 (door on Great (more…)

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Alison Wolf – An Adult Approach to Further Education

3 November 2009

Alison Wolf – An Adult Approach to Further Education

3 November 2009

In the UK, further education is a bastion of Soviet central planning that has wholly avoided the market-based reforms that … Continue reading