Ireland's big school secret: how a year off-curriculum changes teenage lives

Sounds like a great idea.

In England, I've seen education get consistently more rigid and inflexible over the years. All about tests, tests and more tests. Teachers leave the profession, children turn off. And as it consistently fails to produce better results, the answer is always to do more of what has failed.

Bring something like this to England, please!

Sounds like Bill Gates has gotten a hold of your school system as well.