Editorial

FORUM - ISSN 0963-8253
Volume 52 Number 1 (2010)

Editorial
Michael Armstrong, Clyde Chitty pages 3-7
DOI: 10.2304/forum.2010.52.1.3

Abstract

In their Report on the recent Nuffield Review of 14 to 19 education and training in England and Wales, Education for All (2009), Professor Richard Pring and his co-authors cite with approval (on pages 11 and 33) Basil Bernstein's (in)famous aphorism 'education cannot compensate for society'; this then became the unfortunate title of Richard Pring's article on the Nuffield Review for a recent number of FORUM (Volume 51, Number 2, pages 197-204); and Professor Pring used it again in a recent letter to The Guardian (5 January 2010), where he called Bernstein's argument 'persuasive'.

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Michael Armstrong, Clyde Chitty (2010) Editorial, FORUM, 52(1), 3-7. https://doi.org/10.2304/forum.2010.52.1.3

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