Learning Policy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction: the Emergence of Learning Policy

   • Patrick Ainley

   Pages 1-26

3. Tripartite Schooling, 1944–63

   • Patrick Ainley

   Pages 27-58

4. Comprehensive Schooling, 1963–76

   • Patrick Ainley

   Pages 59-87

5. Training without Jobs, 1976–87

   • Patrick Ainley

   Pages 88-117

6. Education without Jobs, 1987–97

   • Patrick Ainley

   Pages 118-156

7. New Learning under New Labour?

   • Patrick Ainley

   Pages 157-196

8. Conclusion: Towards a New Alternative

   • Patrick Ainley

   Pages 197-213

9. Back Matter

   Pages 214-236

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The emergence of learning policy is traced through a history of postwar UK education and training. The 1944 settlement is seen to be replaced by a new settlement marked by the 1988 Education and 1992 Further and Higher Education Acts. This also signals a change from the classic, postwar welfare state to a postwelfare, workfare or contracting state.

• education
• learning
• Policy

• School of Post-Compulsory Education and Training, University of Greenwich, London, UK

  Patrick Ainley

PATRICK AINLEY is Reader in Learning Policy at the University of Greenwich. He has written and researched widely on education and training at all levels in England and taught at all levels of secondary, further and higher education. Previous publications include Degrees of Difference: Higher Education in the 1990s; From School to YTS: Education and Training in England and Wales, 1944-87; and he is co-author of Beyond Competence: The National Council for Vocational Qualifications.

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