These Victorian legacies include: reliance on the generalist class teacher rather than specialist subject teachers, lower per pupil funding than in secondary schools, lower status for primary school teachers, a formal education starting age of five, and long summer holidays which are left over from the days when children were needed to bring in the harvest.

BBC: All change for primary schools?

It shows that young people need the skills taught at primary and lower secondary school to find decent jobs.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

It shows that young people need the skills taught at primary and lower secondary school to find decent jobs.. In sub-Saharan Africa, about 30 million children are still missing out on primary school and 22 million teenagers are out of secondary school, missing out on vital skills for future employment.

UNESCO: One third of young people in Sub-Saharan Africa fail to complete primary school and lack skills for work | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization