Martin Allen   reviews  The  Second Machine Age. Work Progress, and Prosperity in a time of Brilliant Technologies Erik Brynjolfsson and   Andrew McAfee’s   The Second Machine Age ( Norton  2014,  ISBN  978-0-393-23935-5 ),  is  an important contribution to the  debate about the effects of  technological change on the workplace and the changing shape of the occupational structure. Advances … Continue reading The robots are coming? The economic and educational implications of the ‘Second Machine Age’. →

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 →

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

Patrick Ainley and Martin Allen The Blob Strikes Back! A review of Schools at Risk! Gove’s School Revolution Scrutinised edited by Trevor Fisher for the Socialist Education Association Gove has characterised his critics in ‘the academic educational establishment’ as ‘The Blob’. If there is an academic educational establishment, some of the authors of this pamphlet … Continue reading The Blob Strikes Back! →

Patrick Ainley                                 http://publicuniversity.org.uk/2013/04/09/review-of-books-focused-on-the-public-university/ Andrew McGettigan (2013) The Great University Gamble, Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education, London: Pluto, pp.209, £16.99, 978-0-7453-3293-2 Roger Brown with Helen Carasso (2013)  Everything for Sale? The marketization of UK higher education, London: Routledge and the Society for Research into Higher Education, pp.235, £26.99, 978-0-415-80980-1 These two books … Continue reading CAMPAIGN FOR THE PUBLIC UNIVERSITY BOOK REVIEWS →

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/536390455 The election of the Conservative-Lib Dem Coalition in 2010 brought about a relentless series of attacks on English education (devolution means that the situation is different in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland). For the most part these attacks are understood as the commodification and marketisation of education. While Allen & Ainley do not dispute … Continue reading Review of The Great Reversal →

Patrick Ainley reviews Dead Man Working                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Carl Cederstrom, Peter Fleming                                                                                                                                                                             Zero Books, Winchester, 2012. 76pp., £9.99 pb                                                                      http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2013/709 '.....Cederstrom and Fleming accept a post-ideological reality in which there is no alternative to a capitalism that has outstripped any useful or progressive function it once had and yet is ‘more powerful and influential than ever’. Thus, … Continue reading Book Review →

Patrick Ainley  reviews  New thinking about the future of higher education reveals only paralysis in response to the New Order being imposed on higher education  Forthcoming in next issue of  ‘POST-16 EDUCATOR’  http://www.post16educator.org.uk/ Introduction Engels – or was it Lenin? – says somewhere that the presentation of many different views on the same subject quickly … Continue reading More Blue Skies →