Emma Wisby

• University College London

This chapter focuses on higher education as teaching and learning, primarily in relation to domestic, full-time undergraduates. This is largely a story of student finance, as successive governments navigated the massification of the sector in the knowledge economy, within a broader acceptance of marketisation.

Particularly since the British vote to leave the European Union (otherwise known as Brexit) and the election of Donald Trump in the USA, there has been much talk of our living in a ‘post-truth’ society, where ‘alternative truths’ compete with each other and where ‘experts’ are often derided and ‘common sense’ celebrated even where it seems to be co...

Since devolution in the late 1990s, education policy in England has diverged further from that in Scotland and also from policy in Wales and Northern Ireland. In this paper we review the roots and trajectory of the English education reforms over the past two decades. Our focus is the schools sector, though we also touch on adjoining reforms to earl...

Including abstract, bibl. This paper discusses the sociological issues raised by a recent study on school councils in England. This study revealed a lack of clarity among policy-makers and schools regarding the purpose of provision for pupil voice. The paper argues that this allows important questions about the functions of pupil voice to be avoide...

This paper considers four notions of teacher professionalism - traditional, managerial, collaborative and democratic professionalism. While its focus is on England, the increasing convergence of education policy around the world means that its discussion and arguments have much wider relevance. The paper begins by outlining the different sociologic...

The Educational and Career Trajectories of Assisted Place Holders A report for the Sutton Trust 2006