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Direct linkSimmons, Robin – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2021
This paper revisits the Macfarlane Report of 1980, the first draft of which recommended the dissolution of school sixth forms, sixth form colleges and other providers of post-compulsory education and training, and the establishment of a national system of tertiary colleges across England -- a programme of reform which would effectively have…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Comprehensive Programs, Foreign Countries
Hill, Dave – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2021
There are lines of demarcation between the political left and right, and also within the left, as regards central matters of education policy and how the purpose and value of education may be understood. This article details and distinguishes what is at stake, in particular between a revolutionary Marxist left and other currents, as regards a…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Political Attitudes, Educational Policy, Comprehensive Programs
Li, Mei – Frontiers of Education in China, 2010
Three different "logics"--that of the internal strategies of the institutions, the economic pressures of the socialist market economy and the political policies of the state drive the development of a university. The dynamic interaction and coexistence of the three logics has determined the transformation models of teacher-education or…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Free Enterprise System, Foreign Countries, Comprehensive Programs
Download full textCrawford, Claire; Meschi, Elena; Vignoles, Anna – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2011
In the UK there has historically been a clear demarcation between the academic and vocational routes through education post-16. Generally vocational study is taken either on a part time basis or full time at Further Education (FE) colleges. Students who want to take academic qualifications such as A levels have the option to enrol in a school…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Academic Education, College Choice, Postsecondary Education
