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28/12/2015

The Early Years

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David Willetts suggests education spending should be rebalanced away from the early years.

David Willetts says education spending should be rebalanced away from the early years in favour of creating more opportunities to learn later in life.

Every day this week the former Conservative MP and universities minister, David Willetts, is examining our education system - stage by stage. 

Putting politics to one side, he's taking a long hard look at education to challenge some of the conventional wisdom we've all lived with for a long time - and which, he argues, shapes the debate without our even realising it.

In today's programme, David suggests that a misunderstanding of neuroscience has led us to put far too much weight on the first three years of life. He says we should rebalance education spending away from the early years in favour of creating more opportunities to learn later in life.

Producer: Charlotte McDonald.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Former universities minister David Willetts examines the UK's education system

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