This week, Ruwan, Beth and Villa Education Trust’s Alwyn Poole discuss ACT’s Partnership Schools and Student Education Accounts and the Government’s plan to take control away from community-run schools.
Politics in Full Sentences: Free Speech, Partnership Schools & Euthanasia
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There no evidence that foreign aid has ever turned a poor country into a rich country; it is much more likely that foreign aid undermines economic development by giving politicians in recipient nations an excuse to delay or avoid needed reforms.