Schools for Employment, Employers Running Schools: A New Phase in Labour's Education Policy in England

Hatcher, Richard, Our Schools, Our Selves

In Education's Iron Cage and Its Dismantling in the New Global Order (Martell 2006) I offered an overview of Labour's transformation of the school system in England (Hatcher and Anderson 2006). I identified its driving force as economic competitiveness. In Tony Blair's words, "Education is our best economic policy" (Blair 2005). I identified four themes which characterise Labour policy: increased state regulation of schooling, increased diversity of provision, the increasing role of the private sector, and the remodelling of the workforce, coupled with the creation of a new model of management by school principals employing technologies of school leadership and management generated by the …

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Publication information: Article title: Schools for Employment, Employers Running Schools: A New Phase in Labour's Education Policy in England. Contributors: Hatcher, Richard - Author. Magazine title: Our Schools, Our Selves. Volume: 18. Issue: 1 Publication date: Fall 2008. Page number: 213+. © Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Fall 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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