Who we are

Patrick Ainley Professor of Training and Education at the University of Greenwich School of Education and Training (as was).  Books include: Learning Policy, Towards the Certified Society, Macmillan 1999; Apprenticeship: Towards a New Paradigm of Learning, (edited with Helen Rainbird) Kogan Page 1999; The Business of Learning, Staff and Student Experiences of Further Education in the 1990s (with Bill Bailey), Cassell 1997; Degrees of Difference, Higher Education in the 1990s, Lawrence and Wishart 1994; Class and Skill, Cassell 1993; Training for the Future, The rise and fall of the Manpower Services Commission (with Mark Corney), Cassell 1990; From School to YTS, Open University Press 1988; and with Martin Allen – Education Make You Fick, Innit? Tufnell Press 2007 and Lost Generation? New strategies for youth and education, Continuum: March 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

Martin Allen  is a writer/ researcher and part-time economics teacher in a   west London sixth-form. 

Completed PhD  thesis at the Open University (2004)  on the changing  relationship between  young people and vocational  qualifications.                          

Co author with Patrick Ainley of Education make you fick, innit? and  Lost Generation?   New strategies for youth and education. 

Vice Chair of National Union of Teachers  Secondary Advisory Committee  2002-2011 and union activist since 1985