Policy Press

Betraying a Generation

How Education is Failing Young People

By Patrick Ainley

Published

Apr 27, 2016

Page count

148 pages

ISBN

978-1447332114

Dimensions

198 x 129 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Apr 27, 2016

Page count

148 pages

ISBN

978-1447332138

Dimensions

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Apr 27, 2016

Page count

148 pages

ISBN

978-1447332145

Dimensions

Imprint

Policy Press
Betraying a Generation

Education has betrayed its promises to deliver upward social mobility and a brighter future.

Young people study harder but learn less, running up a down-escalator of devalued qualifications to become overqualified but underemployed, unable to move forward with their lives.

From primary to post-graduate schools – funny phonics through endless testing to phoney apprenticeships and the world’s most costly university fees – Patrick Ainley explains how English education is now driven by the economy and politics, ‘dumbing down’ rather than ‘wising up’.

Addressed to teachers and students at all levels of learning, it concludes by suggesting how schools, colleges and universities can begin to contribute towards a more meaningful and productive society.

Professor of Education at the University of Greenwich and Visiting Fellow at New College, Oxford, Patrick Ainley has taught in schools, colleges and universities, writing on youth and education including From School to YTS (1988) and Lost Generation? (2010).

Introduction;

From jobs without education to education without jobs;

New times;

Class structure in the 21st century;

Running up a down-escalator;

A new politics of education.