JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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School Scandals
Pat Thomson's book blows the whistle on how corrupt neoliberal practice is wrecking education in Britain
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DAVID HARVIE recommends a selection of Harry Cleaver’s writing that documents working-class activism and offers a method, and a way of understanding and investigating the world
DAVID YEARSLEY is fascinated by the account of four composers who transformed their experiences of the second world war and the Holocaust into deeply moving works of art
PETER MASON thrills to the sound of south London-born Yussef Dayes, and the galaxy of musicians drawn into his orbit
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THE CORE argument of Professor Pat Thomson’s outstanding book is that when the economistic logic of calculation and competition is the basis for organising the public sector, gross inefficiencies, ineffectiveness and inequities result.
And, she asserts, England’s school system represents “an almost fully materialised case of economistic logics at work.”
Targeting the corruption, corrupted practices and the “fraud, lack of transparency, cronyism and spin” that lie at the heart of the British state, she investigates the undermining of local authority-run schools by neoliberal ideology and how, in the public sector, the neoliberal funder–purchaser-provider infrastructure system has enabled the development of a marketised academy-based system.
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