Between 1998 and 2010 the private finance initiative (PFI) became the favoured option to procure school buildings and facilities in the UK. Under the scheme, r...
Is meritocracy an effective device for legitimising socioeconomic inequality?
My father Michael Young’s objection to meritocracy was rooted in his belief in...
The illusion of meritocracy at school inflicts damage on children and young people – particularly those from working class backgrounds. More than that, meritoc...
A relatively new addition to the British summer calendar, joining
Royal Ascot and Wimbledon, is the public revelation of another year of
hyper-inflation in uni...
Socioeconomic inequalities in education are among those ‘burning injustices’ that Theresa May, in her first speech as prime minister, pledged to put right. Wit...
The Race Equality Charter mark (REC) was introduced in 2014 to improve the representation and progression of minority ethnic staff and students in higher educat...
Since its inception within UK schools, sex education has been a highly controversial subject. It has been typically influenced by a moral and political agenda r...
On the face of it, policy making in education points a positive picture of inclusion and equality. However, higher education is one example (of many) in which i...
In Alan Ware’s latest defence of his views on higher education, “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” (Macbeth), he claims that ...
University education in Britain currently exhibits two serious problems of social justice. There are far more graduates than jobs requiring the skills obtained ...
In his recent article in The Political Quarterly, Alan Ware claimed that for most students, higher education was not worth the cost. However, this view is incon...
It is time to take stock of what austerity policies have meant for the school system in England.
Seven years after the election of a Conservative-led coalition...
