256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Education is becoming more competitive - choice in education is now a key issue. This book will help parents, schools, colleges, universities and policy makers understand how education and training markets work. Choosing Futures offers a wide ranging perspective on how young people, and their parents, make choices as they travel through a lifetime of education and training. The authors challenge... Read more
1. Choice, Decision Making and the Education Market Place; 2. Rationality, Motivation and the Reality of Choice; 3. Reciprocity and Corroboration; 4. Choosing Schools - Parents and Pupils in the Market Place; 5. Expanding Horizons? Career Perspectives and Educational Choice Amongst Primary School Children; 6. Students as Consumers in a Further Education Market; 7.Deception or Appeasement? Marketing and Post-Sixteen Choice; 8. Anticipated Futures: Higher Education, Perceptions and Student Choice; Choice or Chance? Career Decision Making Processes of Young People; 10. Choice in Education - Perspectives and Prospectives

Biography

Nicholas Foskett, Jane Hemsley-Brown