Introduction
1. History and Sociology of Educational Policy
John Ahier
2. The Politics of Administrative Convenience – the case of middle schools
Andy Hargreaves
3. An Elite Transformed: Continuity and Change in 16–18 Educational Policy
A.D. Edwards
4. Education and Local Government in the Light of Central Government Policy
Colin Hunter
5. Teachers’ Responses to the Cuts
Gwen Wallace, Henry Miller and Mark Ginsburg
6. The Peripheralisation of Youth in the Labour Market: Problems, Analyses and Opportunities: Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany
Bill Williamson
7. State Policy and School Examination 1976–82: An exploration of some implications of the sixteen-plus controversy
Geoff Whitty
8. Schools for Democracy?
A.H. Halsey
9. Accountability, Industry and Education – Reflections on Some Aspects of the Educational and Industrial Policies of the Labour Administrations of 1974–79
John Beck
10. Thatcherism and Education
Roger Dale
11. The Social Democratic Party, its Political Programme and Educational Policies: Revisionism Revisited and Re-formed
Michael Flude
Biography
John Ahier, Michael Flude
Review of the first publication:
‘… Contemporary Education Policy is a worthwhile contribution to comparative studies.’
— Michael W. Apple, Comparative Education Review, Vol. 28, No. 4
