David Goodhart

@David_Goodhart

Founder Prospect magazine. Author ‘Road to Somewhere’ (Anywheres/Somewheres) and ‘Head, Hand, Heart’. Ex-director Demos. Now PX. New book ‘The Care Dilemma’

London

Joined November 2009

David Goodhart
@David_Goodhart
Aug 16
A challenge to Burnham/Powell idea that technical education is the answer for 'non-academic' kids. Good technical qualifications need cognitive ability too, and for most the 25% of 19 yr olds with limited literacy/numeracy a technical course is not the answer
Andy Burnham’s plans for technical education are laudable...
From observer.co.uk
David Goodhart
@David_Goodhart
Aug 16
Thanks Jane, was on Saturday’s Today prog (at 8.40ish) on unfairness of the current distribution of asylum seekers, mainly in poorer areas, and suggested revisiting Homes for Ukraine volunteering idea and asking diaspora organisations from main asylum lands (Pakistan, Iran,
Jane kelly
@Janekelly25
Aug 15
@David_Goodhart made an interesting suggestion @BBCr4today that people from large ethnic minority groups, from #Pakistan & #India could offer help & accomodation to newly arriving #migrants
David Goodhart
@David_Goodhart
Aug 14
Really brilliant discussion with Suzanne O’Sullivan and David Runciman on overdiagnosis, and interesting analogy with academic grade inflation
Past Present Future podcast
From ppfideas.com
David Goodhart
@David_Goodhart
Aug 6
Some thoughts on Burnham's social care reform, against the hyperbolic language of crisis, how relatively few ppl pay in full (and mainly Southern/affluent), but how it does need a national profile/status raising as the preventative care service
Social care reform: what the sector needs & what it doesn't – with David Goodhart
From youtube.com
David Goodhart
@David_Goodhart
Jul 28
Thanks @andyburnham for drawing attention to my under-appreciated classic penguin.co.uk/books/313407/h… And yes, ofc, we still need elite univs but the status game is now shifting for middling ability kids at middling univs, thanks to student debt and slower growth of professional jobs
Head Hand Heart
From penguin.co.uk