Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley
Letter Guardian Education 24/06/08
Mike Baker raises some important points about A-levels
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2285812,00.html
While it’s true that only a minority gain three grade As, the general rise in standards at A-level is to be welcomed, though it reflects a situation where more and more young people feel they have to “go to [...]
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. [...]
Patrick Ainley
Letter Education Guardian 27/11/07
Malcolm Grant, provost of University College London and chair of the Russell Group of universities, is sponsoring a non-selective mixed academy in his borough of Camden as a way of widening participation to elite higher education (A university is the best kind of sponsor for an academy, Education Guardian November 20) [...]
