THE CURRENT EDUCATIONAL LITERARY SCENE

Abstract

The rapid changes taking place in education must be bewildering to the layman and even to the average educationalist. Since 1980 a whole range of new courses with new initials and acronyms have been created, so that authors today find it necessary to include a glossary of terms to help the reader find his way through the maze. Here, for example, is a sample of acronyms that have appeared since 1980: ATS, CPVE, CTC, GCSE, RESTART, RVO, TRIST, TVEI, YTS. It is hard to keep up with them all. Before this review is published, we shall see the Government introduce an Education Bill that is going to have a profound effect on the way the education system of this country is run. It will be the most important piece of legislation since 1944. I have therefore tried to select books that deal with the changing scene, and in particular three that are opposed to the present Government's policy.

Citation

Baker, E.C. (1988), "THE CURRENT EDUCATIONAL LITERARY SCENE", Education + Training, Vol. 30 No. 1, pp. 5-6. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb017381