Schools Under New Labour — Getting Down to Business

  • Richard Hatcher
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Abstract

I want to begin by making a distinction between a business agenda for schools and an agenda for business in schools. The first agenda — what business wants schools to do — is a broad transnational consensus about the set of reforms needed for schools to meet employers’ needs in terms of the efficiency with which they produce the future workforce. The second agenda — what business itself wants to do in schools — represents the interests of a growing sector of private companies whose business is taking over the provision of state education services.

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