British Further Education colleges were the trial lab for neoliberal education reform
Evidence
In Britain, Further Education colleges used to be places which students, often from working class backgrounds, were drawn to if they wanted an alternative to more formal state educational institutions. Ever since Further Education colleges were removed from local authority control in the early 1990s, they have become subject both to ‘market’ pressures and to government-imposed targets. They have been at the vanguard of changes that would be rolled out through the rest of the education system and public services – a kind of lab in which neoliberal ‘reforms’ of education have been trialed, and as such, they are the perfect place to begin an analysis of the effects of capitalist realism. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 44
Categorization
- XREF: The FE-college-as-laboratory-for-reform parallels how the jazz essay read a minor phenomenon to reveal society’s contradictions. — connects to: British FE colleges served as trials for nationwide neoliberal education reforms — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 44; Neoliberal policies produced experiments whose results fed yet more neoliberal projects — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1983; New Labour revived Stalinist planning targets within education
Related
- British FE colleges served as trials for nationwide neoliberal education reforms (similarity 0.95)
- New Labour revived Stalinist planning targets within education (similarity 0.84)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberal policies produced experiments whose results fed yet more neoliberal projects
#expands(0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1983