Donald Naismith: 2 books

One of the main aims of the governments education policy is to make local education authorities a thing of the past by removing all schools from their control and establishing them as free-standing, self-governing academies. What was once a national service, locally administered is being transformed...

During the eleven years of Margaret Thatchers premiership, education in England was transformed by her determination to reorganise the state sector along public school lines and, in doing so, to remove local councils from the key role they had always played in the national system. Throughout this...