{"id":192,"date":"2012-07-27T10:12:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T09:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hilarymoriarty.com\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2012-07-27T10:12:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T09:12:14","slug":"our-exported-education-relies-on-our-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j-moriarty.co.uk\/hilarymoriarty\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Our exported education relies on our reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TES is right to draw attention to both the economic value of a British education as offered in international schools overseas and the risk to this valuable sector from the constant, noisy washing of allegedly dirty linen &#8211; the criticism of British qualifications &#8211; in public (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tes.co.uk\/article.aspx?storycode=6263291\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Why the world is buying what we&#8217;re rejecting<\/a>&#8220;, 20 July).<br \/>\nBut you might also have noted that bad publicity about our examination system will weaken the appeal of a British education to international students, who contribute hugely to our economy by attending British boarding schools, independent and state maintained.<br \/>\nWe should be pleased that after years of grumbling about falling standards, the present bad publicity about our qualifications is accompanied by plans to fix them. And about time, too.<br \/>\nHilary Moriarty, National director, Boarding Schools&#8217; Association.<br \/>\nPublished at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tes.co.uk\/article.aspx?storycode=6264970\">http:\/\/www.tes.co.uk\/article.aspx?storycode=6264970<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TES is right to draw attention to both the economic value of a British education as offered in international schools overseas and the risk to this valuable sector from the constant, noisy washing of allegedly dirty linen &#8211; the criticism of British qualifications &#8211; in public (&#8220;Why the world is buying what we&#8217;re rejecting&#8220;, 20\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/j-moriarty.co.uk\/hilarymoriarty\/?p=192\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-letter","category-times-ed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-moriarty.co.uk\/hilarymoriarty\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-moriarty.co.uk\/hilarymoriarty\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-moriarty.co.uk\/hilarymoriarty\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-moriarty.co.uk\/hilarymoriarty\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-moriarty.co.uk\/hilarymoriarty\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/j-moriarty.co.uk\/hilarymoriarty\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j-moriarty.co.uk\/hilarymoriarty\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-moriarty.co.uk\/hilarymoriarty\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j-moriarty.co.uk\/hilarymoriarty\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}