The authors of this book examine the British National Curriculum from several different perspectives and concentrate on various subject areas. The uniting theme between these essays is the argument that the subjects in the school curriculum used to be regarded as discrete areas of knowledge which would be imparted to pupils by teachers motivated ...
The National Health Service provides poor quality health care, compared with systems in other developed countries. In this book, Heinz Redwood makes detailed comparisons between the UK, France, Germany and the USA, in order to demonstrate just how wide the gap between Britain and the rest of the developed world has become. We spend less of our ...
Britain suffers from apparently intractable social problems: crime, family breakdown, welfare dependency and educational failure. None of our political parties appears to have any idea of how to break into these cycles of anti-social behaviour and low achievement. Healthy debate, moreover, has been hampered by our "culture wars", the deep ...
Church schools are so popular that they are oversubscribed. Parents appreciate them both for their moral ethos and their better-than average exam results. The report of the Archbishops' Council (the Dearing Report) has recommended the creation of another hundred Church of England secondary schools to meet the demand. The contributors to this ...
Sir William Macpherson's inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence claimed to find evidence of 'institutional' or 'unwitting' racism in the Metropolitan Police Service. However, the inquiry's findings were controversial. No evidence was produced - at least in the sense in which evidence is understood in a court of law. The definition of racism ...
From the arrival of the Celtic monks until well into the 19th century, all formal education in Britain was religious education. Until the middle of the 17th century, formal education was under the sole auspices of the Church of England. But whether strictly under the control of the Church of England or not, the prevailing belief was that, without ...
There are few changes in social policy that have been so radical and so contentious as those made to the US welfare system in the 1990s. The reforms abolished the idea of a "right" to welfare. Claimants were to be steered firmly into the workforce, with strict time limits for those claiming benefits - no more than two years at a stretch, and no ...
Welfare reform has become one of the hottest political topics of recent years. Not only is the welfare state draining billions from the economy, it has given rise to an underclass, lacking the social capital necessary to participate in mainstream society. In this collection of essays the authors consider attempts to reform welfare in both the USA ...
On 22 April 1993 black teenager Stephen Lawrence was murdered. His killers were never brought to justice. A committee of inquiry was established under the chairmanship of Sir William Macpherson to investigate 'the matters arising' from the death of Stephen Lawrence for both the investigation and the prosecution of racially motivated crimes. The ...
Ever since the General Medical Council was established by act of parliament in 1858, the medical profession has been left to regulate itself. In return for freedom from political interference, the GMC undertakes to ensure that doctors on its register are fit to practice, and that professional misconduct is punished by removal from the register. ...
The NHS is underfunded; there is a lack of competition; and there is a lack of respect for individual choice. Unfortunately, the Blair Government has made matters worse by diminishing competition: GPs have been dragooned into primary care groups which have turned them into gatekeepers rather than champions of the patient, and hospital mergers have ...
Charles Murray is one of America's most respected social policy analysts, whose ideas about the underclass, outlined in his classic "Losing Ground", entered the mainstream of the debate about poverty. Murray's thesis, that the underclass represents not a degree of poverty but a type of poverty, characterized by deviant attitudes towards parenting, ...
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