Should schools see our children solely according to their future function in the job market?

The Greens believe in education being for the public good, and publicly-funded

Real Progress is not students paying top-up fees; in fact, we believe in student grants and higher education being freely available to anyone who wants to invest their time in learning the skills to make a greater contribution back to our society.

In schools, we believe much smaller class sizes are the key to questions of behaviour and learning. Classrooms should be places of exploration and the exhilaration of discovery, not a forum for crowd-control.

We want more more locally-focussed and better-funded schools, that listen more to the needs of parents and pupils alike.

Green MEPs Jean Lambert and Caroline Lucas are fighting for this by preventing Britain's public services from being forced open to international competition and privatisation.

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