But, given the current problems, the question is whether the cuts have gone too far.

ECONOMIST: Hospitals

There is a little evidence that this could improve pupils' progress, but what may happen, given the current problems in recruiting teachers, is that a large class with an experienced and capable teacher is split into two, with half of the pupils being taken by a less experienced and perhaps less capable teacher.

ECONOMIST: Health and education

Likewise, the standards-based reform movement of the 1990s has highlighted and given new urgency to the problems of students who are not being well served by the current education system and are thus at risk of failing to meet new, higher standards in the future.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section