There is a widened western educational gap between the north and south of Nigeria with the
predominantly Muslim areas of the north lagging behind due to some historical antecedents …

Education privatization is a global phenomenon that has crystallized in countries with very
different cultural, political, and economic backgrounds. In this book, the authors examine …

Young Criminal Lives is the first cradle-to-grave study of the experiences of some of the
thousands of delinquent, difficult and destitute children passing through the early English …

Major technological innovations are not sufficient to enable socio-economic progress
without governments creating the institutional framework–in particular via education, welfare …

Elite schools have always been social choreographers par excellence. The world over, they
put together highly dexterous performances as they stage and restage changing relations of …

In this fully updated sixth edition of this much-loved textbook, students will be introduced to
different ways of looking at education, supported by links to classic and contemporary …

I carried out the work that led to this book during the period 2007–13. Over that time I met
many new colleagues, made many new friends, and accumulated more than a few …

The whole landscape of space use is undergoing a radical transformation. In the workplace
a period of unprecedented change has created a mix of responses with one overriding …

Teachers are the most important determinant of the quality of schools. We should be doing
everything we can to help them get better. In recent years, however, a cocktail of box-ticking …

This book is about fairness in education. The first edition of the book was completed in 2011,
the second in the autumn of 2017. In 2011, Britain was just starting to see the consequences …