Category: Books

Book Review: ‘Capsule Education’

Patrick Ainley FORTHCOMING IN HIGHER EDUCATION REVIEW The Consumer Experience of Higher Education, The Rise of Capsule Education by Deirdre McArdle-Clinton, Continuum 978-1-4411-7919-7 (pbk), £27.99 I read this book as a treat after two week’s marking. At this point I should stop because the state of higher education in Ireland so presciently described by Deirdre … Continue reading Book Review: ‘Capsule Education’ →

Book Review : Peter Latham The State and Local Government

                                                                       Patrick Ainley  reviews Peter Latham's The State and Local Government: Towards a New Basis for 'Local Democracy'  and the Defeat of Big Business Control                        http://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/reviews/2012/541#.T80czA5BSdQ.email

Two Manifestos for the fight against fees

Book reviews for Post-16 Educator  by Patrick Ainley  'A Manifesto for the Public University’ John Holmwood (ed.)  (2011) London Bloomsbury ‘The Assault on Universities, A Manifesto for Resistance'  Michael Bailey  and Des Freedman (eds) (2011) London, Pluto Where are we? As Andrew McGettigan asked on his Critical Education blog at the end of 2011, noting ' the government’s strategy … Continue reading Two Manifestos for the fight against fees →

Book Review: Remaking the Curriculum; re-engaging young people in the secondary school

Martin Allen   Education Review  Volume 24. N0 1 Remaking the Curriculum; re-engaging young people in the secondary school.   Martin Fautley, Richard Hatcher and Elaine Millard.  Trentham Books 2011, ISBN: 978-1-85856-471-5 The very title of this book should be enough to entice secondary practitioners stuck in a daily grind; where teaching has become focussed on preparing for the … Continue reading Book Review: Remaking the Curriculum; re-engaging young people in the secondary school →

No Country for the Young (edited by Richard Hatcher and Ken Jones)

No Country for the Young.  From New Labour  to the Coalition    Tufnell Press  (www.tufnellpress.co.uk)   http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_10?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field keywords=no+country+for+the+young&sprefix=no+country Download    flyer  Can the ‘Lost Generation’ find its way?  Young people, education and society Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley As recognised by the parents, teachers and school pupils who joined F&H  students demonstrating against fee rises and for a … Continue reading No Country for the Young (edited by Richard Hatcher and Ken Jones) →