Patrick Ainley
Times Higher Education Supplement 07/02/08
Widening participation is a cruel con but the people academics fool the most with it are themselves. The government target of 50 per cent of 18-30 year-olds entering higher education by 2010 presents itself as a professionalisation of the proletariat but it disguises a proletarianisation of the professions. [...]
Martin Allen
Campaign Teacher Spring 2008
News that McDonalds are offering employees a ‘training’ equivalent to A-levels got its fair share of media attention at the end of January, particularly when it became known that QCA was recognising it - along with courses from two other major companies, the airline Flybe and Network Rail.
From January 2008, McDonald’s [...]
