One per cent find education to be Britain’s most important issue, research shows

Education has been named as less important than unemployment and housing, according to a poll by Ipsos Mori.

It shows that only one per cent of the public find education as an important issue in Britain and nearly half of those (46 per cent) quizzed last month said NHS was one of the most important issues.

Only 15 per cent viewed education and schools as an important issue, which is a three per cent decrease since December.

The poll also concluded that the importance of education to the public has dropped since May 1997, which is when Labour party won the general election with the campaign for “education education education”.

As reported by Tes, Jonathon Simons, director of policy and advocacy at the Varkey Foundation, commented: "People can only worry about so many things at once. As certain things become more important, by default other things become less important."