Technology is a business.
Everybody knows that education needs to improve and this means an expenditure of money.
As a taxpayer, the 35% of our salary we pay in direct and indirect taxation has reached the upper limit of acceptability. No government can improve its education budget as radically as is necessary as there are many other competing requirements.
Education must be classed as a business as it has an input, process and an output. It has an income and expenditure. Schools cannot run at a loss by law.
If the income cannot be increased and the expenditure has to be radically increased, there is only one solution remaining. That is to reduce operating costs. Increasing revenue by sponsorship is not a long-term solution and will not halt the inevitable.
Education uses its facilities for only 9 months of the year and its labour costs account for 80% of its expenditure. Businesses like this went to the wall in the 80's or were radically changed. Its now the turn of Education to be modernised.
All this together with the fact that English education in terminal decline, creates a situation for social changes driven by Technology.
There will be huge forces opposing any changes. It will be very difficult for many to swallow the fact that way they have been working for the last 10 - 20 years is now redundant.