Education Without Employment: not meeting the national education and training targets

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Based on research for the then National Advisory Council for the Education and Training Targets interviewing principals, head teachers and other staff plus students in a sample of further education, tertiary and sixth‐form colleges and schools in England and Wales in Autumn 1994, this paper presents a national picture of the new relations of colleges, schools and schemes in the competition for 16 to 19 year old pupils, students and trainees at local level. It reveals common emerging patterns together with local variations and relates them to the new mixed economy of semi‐privatised state provision of learning in ‘The Contracting State’. The unlikelihood of reaching the revised national targets is related to the competition between colleges and schools that has resulted from the new ‘knowledge policy’ supported by this new state. In relation to the recent merger of the Department for Education with the Employment Department this is referred to as a policy of ‘Education Without Employment’

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