After my paper “The Overselling of Higher Education” was released, I heard from an education reformer in Britain, Tom Burkard, who said that things were much the same there. I prevailed upon him to write a piece explaining the situation under the Blair government and today the Pope Center has released it. You can read Burkard’s article here. The U.S. isn’t the only nation where the idea that formal education is the panacea for inequality and slow economic growth has taken hold.