Putting a ‘value’ on rural schools

There are the better part of 750,000 words in the English language.

It has begged, borrowed and stolen from everything from Latin and Japanese to Inuit and Irish.

However, we have difficulty with “value”. We hear every day that the Government wants to get better value for money. It is this narrow interpretation of the word that is causing problems. There seems to be no word that puts any usefulness on an asset that reflects anything other than a monetary figure.