Times Educational Supplement Book of the Week:'This logical structure covers all the main policy areas and the chapters are well structured and clearly written. Thanks to good editing, there is a consistency of approach and style that is often absent from multi-author works.' - John Dunford' This collection of sixteen essays, grouped in five parts, presents a reasonably comprehensive overview of the politics of education in Britian since 1976 ... It is an accessible text; one to be read by those who wish to acquire an introductory overview of the political struggles that have enevloped British education in the past twenty-five years. - Ted Tapper, Perspectives

• List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, PART I Introduction verview1and historical, Introduction and rationale, PART II The changing institutional context, PART III Professionalism, accountability and standards, PART IV Issues of equality, PART V Conclusion, Index

Times Educational Supplement Book of the Week:'This logical structure covers all the main policy areas and the chapters are well structured and clearly written. Thanks to good editing, there is a consistency of approach and style that is often absent from multi-author works.' - John Dunford' This collection of sixteen essays, grouped in five parts, presents a reasonably comprehensive overview of the politics of education in Britian since 1976 ... It is an accessible text; one to be read by those who wish to acquire an introductory overview of the political struggles that have enevloped British education in the past twenty-five years. - Ted Tapper, Perspectives

• List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, PART I Introduction verview1and historical, Introduction and rationale, PART II The changing institutional context, PART III Professionalism, accountability and standards, PART IV Issues of equality, PART V Conclusion, Index

Times Educational Supplement Book of the Week:'This logical structure covers all the main policy areas and the chapters are well structured and clearly written. Thanks to good editing, there is a consistency of approach and style that is often absent from multi-author works.' - John Dunford' This collection of sixteen essays, grouped in five parts, presents a reasonably comprehensive overview of the politics of education in Britian since 1976 ... It is an accessible text; one to be read by those who wish to acquire an introductory overview of the political struggles that have enevloped British education in the past twenty-five years. - Ted Tapper, Perspectives

• List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, PART I Introduction verview1and historical, Introduction and rationale, PART II The changing institutional context, PART III Professionalism, accountability and standards, PART IV Issues of equality, PART V Conclusion, Index