What is Neoliberalism?
Neoliberalism is the idea that less government interference in the free market is the central goal of politics. Neoliberals believe […]
Neoliberalism and The New Right
policy
education, Social class, wealth and income inequalities
Analysis of The Government’s 2014 Report on White Working Class Underachievement
White working class underachievement is persistent and real, but contemporary government reports are potentially biased in that they might fail
education, Education Policy
Education Policies – A Summary
The main aims, policy details and evaluations of the main waves of UK education policy – including the 1944 Butler Education Act, the introduction of Comprehensives in 1965, the 1988 Education Act which introduced marketisation, New Labour’s 1997 focus on academies and the 2010 Coalition government’s Free Schools.
education, Education Policy, Neoliberalism and The New Right
The Neoliberal Approach to Education Reform
Stephen Ball argues that there are four central mechanisms through which neoliberalism has transformed the British education system (these are
Demography, Families and Households
The Consequences of an Ageing Population
healthy life expectancy isn’t keeping pace, and the sheer cost of looking after the elderly in the context of family-individualism make the ageing population a problem!