[TheNorm]

Originally Posted by injuneer

...because it's cheap labour.

No, that can't be right! The Prime Minister has assured us that spending on education is a top priority:

In a speech designed to refocus attention from debates about his leadership and towards the government's policies, he insisted that public spending on education had to remain high despite the growing public debt because, he said, the country needs new skills to build its way out of a recession. "The downturn is no time to slow down our investment in education, but rather to build more vigorously for the future," he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/...s-rate-schools