Publisher's Synopsis
A balanced assessment of the effects on education of the Education Reform Act 1988, with contributions from experts in their fields. The areas covered are the legislative background, the design and management of the curriculum, the issue of standards, religious education, the nature of political control of education, teacher professionalism, parents' power as consumers in education, higher and further education, industrial and vocational training, an overseas perspective and constitutional and institutional change.;The book is intended to be useful to LEA officers, CEOs, senior advisors and inspectors, headteachers, deputies and senior staff in secondary and primary schools, principals of colleges of further and higher education, and lecturers in Colleges of Education, and other Colleges and Polytechnics.
