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Category: Privatisation

On speaking truth to power

By Ian Nash Posted on December 3, 2013 Posted in Further Education, HE in FE, Privatisation No Comments

Should FE staff speak truth to power? I don’t mean in the way the US Quakers who originated the phrase in 1955 meant – as an alternative to conflict – but as a critical and quite probably friendly voice that …

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A privatised route to falling standards

By Ian Nash Posted on July 16, 2013 Posted in Michael Gove, Policy, Privatisation No Comments

Creeping privatisation and competition in state education has been a disaster across the globe almost everywhere it has been tried and yet the Coalition government seems hell-bent on pursuing it. Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, is repeatedly accused of putting …

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Lessons from Finland, by Andrew Morris

By EditorJW Posted on July 16, 2012 Posted in Policy, Privatisation No Comments Tagged with Finland

Pasi Sahlberg Source Education in other countries sounds so much more interesting than our own! In Switzerland it’s the calibre of apprenticeships, in France the breadth of the Baccalaureat, in Scandinavia the quality of pre-school play. But as I see …

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