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  • THE PRIVATE SCHOOLING OF GIRLS
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    THE PRIVATE SCHOOLING OF GIRLS
    GEOFFREY WALFORD
    Hitherto only a small proportion of the research on private education has been on the schooling of girls. Debate on the subject, while often heated, even prejudiced, proceeds largely in ignorance of the historical development of private schooling, the currently changing nature of private schooling, and the wide diversity of provision of private schooling. This collection of pre...

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  • BRITISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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    BRITISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    GEOFFREY WALFORD
    First published in 1984, British Public Schools is a collection of empirically based articles written by sociologists of education who have conducted research into public schools. Studies are presented on why parents sent their children to public schools, on the experiences of pupils and teachers, on aspirations and attitudes of pupils towards higher education, on the increasin...

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  • PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN TEN COUNTRIES
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    PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN TEN COUNTRIES
    GEOFFREY WALFORD
    First published in 1989, Private Schools in Ten Countries provides a much needed comparative study, examining private schooling in England and Wales, Scotland, the USA, Canada, Australia, France, West Germany, the Netherlands and Japan. The authors, all experts in their field, describe the nature and extent of private schooling in an historical, economic, and social context. Th...

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  • RESTRUCTURING UNIVERSITIES
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    RESTRUCTURING UNIVERSITIES
    GEOFFREY WALFORD
    Originally published in 1987 Restructuring Universities uses Aston University as a case study of the internal restructuring taking place in universities. Aston lost one third of its funding in 1981 and was told to reduce its student numbers by one fifth within three years. The university has a balanced financial budget, well oversubscribed courses, and the average A level score...

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  • POLICY AND POLITICS IN EDUCATION
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    POLICY AND POLITICS IN EDUCATION
    GEOFFREY WALFORD
    This title was first published in 2000:  This is an examination of the sponsored grant-maintained schools initiative. These schools were an attempt to increase the diversity of schools within the state-maintained sector so families would have a greater choice when selecting the most desirable school for their children. Thus allowing schools to be run by religious and ethnic min...

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  • ACADEMIES, FREE SCHOOLS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
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    ACADEMIES, FREE SCHOOLS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
    GEOFFREY WALFORD
    Academies were introduced by Labour in 2000 and first opened their doors in 2002, but during Labour’s time in power the nature of the Academies changed. At first they were designed to replace existing failing schools but, by 2004, the expectation had widened to provide for entirely new schools where there was a demand for new places. From 2010, under the coalition government, t...

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  • RESEARCHING THE POWERFUL IN EDUCATION
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    RESEARCHING THE POWERFUL IN EDUCATION
    GEOFFREY WALFORD
    Educationalists offer an overview of methods for researching those in positions of power. They focus on key issues with broad relevance to social scientists such as access, interviewing, data restrictions, ethical dilemmas and the role of theory.; This book is intended for academic and postgraduate researchers within education, sociology, social policy and politics as well as a...

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  • BLAIR'S EDUCATIONAL LEGACY?
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    BLAIR'S EDUCATIONAL LEGACY?
    GEOFFREY WALFORD
    The United Kingdom General Election on 1st May 1997 gave a landslide victory to a re-vitalised Labour Party. Tony Blair became Prime Minister with a huge Commons majority of 179 over all other parties. Such a majority meant that extensive changes of policy could be implemented with little effective opposition. During the election campaign Tony Blair had repeatedly claimed that ...

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  • PRIVATIZATION AND PRIVILEGE IN EDUCATION (RLE EDU L)
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    PRIVATIZATION AND PRIVILEGE IN EDUCATION (RLE EDU L)
    GEOFFREY WALFORD
    Can privilege be bought? Arguments have raged over whether private education in the UK is ‘the cement in the wall’ dividing British society, or whether parental choice is, as has also been argued ‘a key component of a free society’. The author here describes the traditional private sector schools, paying attention to the ways in which parents can purchase privilege for their ch...

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  • LIFE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS (RLE EDU L)
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    LIFE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS (RLE EDU L)
    GEOFFREY WALFORD
    Britain’s public (that is, its major independent) schools have a conspicuous role in the country’s social system, and as a result are the subject of a long-standing political debate. The discussion is generally founded on a stereotyped image of what these school may have been like in the 1950s – this books shows how they were in the late 1980s. It is based on fieldwork in two m...

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  • DOING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
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    DOING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
    WALFORD, GEOFFREY
    Thirteen major educationalists offer semi-autobiographical accounts of their own influential research work, focusing on the practical and personal realities of the research process. Authors such as Barbara Tizard and Martin Hughes, Stephen J. Ball, David Reynolds and Peter Mortimore discuss their approaches to aspects of research from conception and funding of the project to in...

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