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Providing an overview and Marxist assessment of Tony Blair and New Labour´s UK education policies, structures, and processes, the contributors in this exciting new collection discuss specific aspects of education policy and practices.

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Introduction; A.Green Capitalisation by Stealth: The Business Takeover of Schools in England; G.Rikowski All the Wrong Answers: Labour´s Corporate-Centred Education Initiatives; K.Farnsworth The Knowledge-based Economy and the Transformation of Higher Education: Issues concerning enclosing and protecting the intellectual commons; M.Bellamy The Professional Imagination: Further Education Professionalism in and beyond a Neo-liberal Context; D.Gleeson The Privatisation of Education Phase II: Perspectives on state schools the private sector and ten years of a Labour government; T.Hafid Management and Governance of the School System; R.Hatcher City: Academies, Alienation, Economism and Contending Forces for Change; P.Woods Curriculum Change in the Blair Years; T.Wrigley Education still make you sick under Gordon Brown, Innit?; M.Allen & P.Ainley Ten Years of Education Policy and ´Race´ Inequality: Whiteness or Neo-liberal Practice?; A.Maisuria Gendered Practices in Education; R.George & J.Wadsworth

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ANTHONY GREEN Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

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