Taking Education Really Seriously: Four Years Hard Labour

Michael Fielding looks at what the Labour Government has achieved in the last four years with its policy of 'education, education, education'.There has been widespread disappointment in New Labour's education policies, which on the whole have not steered too far wide of those put in place by Margaret Thatcher, including issues of marketisation, testing and performativity. Michael Fielding has called on the key policy thinkers in education to offer their opinions on what has happened in educ...