Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for “truly personalised” services with people given the information and power needed to choose a school or hospital.
(Read it at the bbc)
Hm.
Giving you a choice between a whole load of very similar things doesn’t strike me as the way to provide a personalised service to anyone. Allowing ppl to do it their own way, like supporting non mainstream small schools, learning services, parent cooperatives and home educators, now that would be a personalised service.
But it wouldn’t provide drones for our consumerist society, would it? Wonder if that has anything to do with anything?
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you know, I had to read that article twice before I realised that it had nothing to do with choices and a lot to do with electioneering, I kept thinking it was just me not reading it right…. And what exactly was new with most of it???? it all sounded like everything I’ve heard/read for the last few years. Sigh.
I can’t see how they could provide a truly personalised service even if they wanted to. Huge institutions don’t work that way, do they? They have to work on systems, and systems are the direct opposite to personalisation.