The latest changes to GCSE by Michael Gove make the original examination even more unrecognisable. It is somewhat ironic that GCSE was introduced by a Tory government headed by Margaret Thatcher and an Education Minister, Sir Keith Joseph, considered, like Gove, to be on the right of the party. GCSE was also left largely untouched … Continue reading GCSE. The times they are a changing
Author: Martin Allen
Hope yet for the ‘dismal science’ ?
A group of Manchester University economics students have caused a stir by demanding changes to their syllabus - the inclusion of critics of the free market like Keynes and Marx. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/oct/24/students-post-crash-economics They also criticise university courses for having too much focus on training students for City jobs. The 'Post Crash Economics Society' plans to publish an alternative manifesto … Continue reading Hope yet for the ‘dismal science’ ?
Book launch and Panel Discussion
Book launch and panel discussion with Christine Blower Goldsmiths College November 19th Download flyer Goldsmiths www.radicaledbks.com
Education Beyond the Coalition : Teacher strike action can point the way
"The book’s publication coincides with strike action called by the two main classroom teacher unions in opposition to Gove’s attacks on their members’ pay, conditions and pensions. This, at least potentially, represents the most serious opposition to Coalition education policies so far. As in the 1980s, the Tories know that ‘defeating the teachers’ is essential … Continue reading Education Beyond the Coalition : Teacher strike action can point the way
Book Review – Mats Alvesson
http://www.srhe.ac.uk/publications/srhe_newsletter.asp SRHE News Review: Mats Alvesson The Triumph of Emptiness: Consumption, Higher Education and Work Organization, Oxford University Press 2013, £25. Patrick Ainley Mats Alvesson is a Swedish Professor of Organization Studies who writes with sociological intent but in a line of cultural studies going back to Veblen and, above all, to Daniel Boorstin’s 1961 … Continue reading Book Review – Mats Alvesson
Book Review Michael Apple
POST-16 EDUCATOR: ISSUE 73 www.post16educator.org.uk SOCIETY HAS TO CHANGE EDUCATION BUT HOW? Asks Patrick Ainley in a review of Michael Apple’s Can Education Change Society? (Routledge 2013, 9780415875332, pp.188, £23.99) that revisits some of the previous discussion in PSEs 71 & 72 over education and social control Michael Apple disarmingly answers the perennial question of his title … Continue reading Book Review Michael Apple
‘Education Beyond the Coalition’ Out now!
Articles by Martin Allen, Patrick Ainley, Valerie Coultas, Richard Hatcher, Ken Jones, Clare Kelly, Robin Simmons, John Yandell. Order via http://www.radicaledbks.com (just £6.99) Buy direct on Teachers London strike march tomorrow Oct 17th http://www.teachers.org.uk
Education or ‘Skills’ ?
Martin Allen The Coalition’s education policies for secondary schools appear to be moving in two contradictory directions. On the one hand new league tables announced by the DfE will publish ‘broader’ indications of success, yet the narrowness of the University Technical Colleges and now the proposed ‘Career Colleges’ seemingly originating from the Department for Business, … Continue reading Education or ‘Skills’ ?
New book: Education Beyond the Coaltion
Published Oct 15th www.educationbeyondthecoalition.com Martin Allen, Patrick Ainley, Valerie Coultas, Ken Jones, Richard Hatcher, Clare Kelly, Robin Simmons, John Yandell
‘Hard Times in England’
http://www.hard-times-magazine.de/future.htm Patrick Ainley and Martin Allen In Großbritannien beginnt das anglo-amerikanische Wirtschaftsmodell, wie es seit 1979 die Politik bestimmt hat, seine Geltung zu verlieren; aber eine Rückkehr zum nationalen Wohlfahrtsstaat der Nachkriegszeit ist ebenfalls unmöglich. In dem engagiert-kritischen Beitrag von Patrick Ainley und Martin Allen erscheint das englische Erziehungssystem als eine Art Linse, durch die … Continue reading ‘Hard Times in England’
