Education and skills policy is still stuck in the 1980s
The 1980s are back; shoulder pads, headbands, ruffle-neck blouses. It’s a well-rehearsed aphorism that fashions repeatedly ‘come round again’, and so if often feels with education policy.
Depending on where you sit on the political spectrum – or possibly which part of the country you lived in at the time – the 1980s was a decade of either greed and the disintegration of communities or entrepreneurialism and liberating deregulation.