Policy rhetoric and the renovation of English schooling: the case of Creative Partnerships |
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| Authors: | Frank Coffield |
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| Institution: | 1. Birmingham University , UK;2. Great Barr School , Birmingham, UK |
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| Abstract: | My critical evaluation of the government's White Paper, Learning to Succeed: a new framework for post-16 learning, which was published in the Journal of Educational Policy (2000, 15(2), 237-246) has provoked a critique by Pat Ainley, which is the main purpose of this section of the journal on Documents and Debates. He claims that my article suffers from two sins of omission: first, I am apparently unaware that the new legislation excludes higher education; and second, I have apparently failed to see that the Learning and Skills Council may become a new Leviathan rather than a new enlightenment. Both criticisms are, in my opinion, wide of the mark for the reasons given below, and this response ends with some comments on Pat Ainley's contribution. |
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| Keywords: | Chancellors of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson Policy‐making Prime ministers |
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