The Higher Education of Heads of Government

By Alex Usher. In this exercise, I look at the records for Canadian, British, Australian, Japanese, and New Zealand Prime Ministers, German Chancellors, and French and American Presidents.  I would have included Italy but politicians’ Wikipedia bios are weirdly silent on education (even in the Italian versions).  I take all leaders back to 1900, except in New Zealand where Dominion Status was not granted until 1907, and Japan where I stop at 1945 because holy moley there are a lot of them. More...