Book launch and panel discussion with Christine Blower                                                                           Goldsmiths College  November 19th                                      Download flyer  Goldsmiths                                                                                                                          www.radicaledbks.com   

"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 →

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 →

                                  Published  Oct 15th   www.educationbeyondthecoalition.com                                                           Martin Allen, Patrick Ainley, Valerie Coultas, Ken Jones, Richard Hatcher, Clare Kelly, Robin Simmons, John Yandell

Once again UK unemployment is recorded as falling. Now down to 7.7% from 7.8%. The employment rate for those aged from 16 to 64 is 71.6%, up 0.2 percentage points from February to April 2013 and up 0.4 from a year earlier. There are now 29.84 million people in employment. (Though with estimates for ‘zero hours’ … Continue reading Youth miss out as the labour market ‘improves’ →