The Great Education Robbery: How the Government Took our Schools and Gave Them to Big Business

Abstract

Intro -- Title Page -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- The Meaning of Corporatisation -- The Consequences of Corporatisation for Schools -- How the Book Was Born -- From Decree to Dispute -- How The People In Control Behaved -- What This Book Is For -- A Declaration of Interest -- Thanks -- Section I Schooling in England: How It Was, How It Is And the Men Who Changed It -- Chapter 1 Who Owns Our Schools? -- How Schools Worked, 1870-1988 -- From 1988-2010 -- From 2010 On -- The Roots of Privatisation -- Chapter 2 How Did We Get Here? -- Neoliberalism For (And By) Dummies -- The Privatisation of The World -- Privatising A Small School -- Privatising A Country -- Chapter 3 Who Did This to Our Schools? -- Where We Were In 2015 -- The Brightest And The Best Of 2010? -- Two Must-Haves For A Government: Ideology … And Competence -- The Man Who Came To Run Education -- Gove In Government -- Picking Winners? -- Praise the lords And Follow The Money -- Bankers And Other Heroes -- Preparing For High Office -- Dealing With People Who Know More Than You -- Re-Enter Rupert -- The Art Of Managing People -- Gove And The Implementation Of The Corporatisation Of Schooling -- Chapter 4 The Coming Of Corporatisation -- Who Is Michael Gove? -- Cracked (1)? -- Cracked (2)? -- Radicals, Renegades … Or Robbers? -- The Gove/Cummings Partnership In 2016-2020 -- What Does Michael Gove Believe In? -- A Nation For Sale -- Section II Capturing the Castle -- Chapter 5 Schooling In A Somerset Village The Scene Of The Crime -- The Village -- The Schools -- The Primary Schools Of The Hamstone Villages -- Chapter 6 The Curious Conversion Of Castle School -- The Nation's Schools -- Meanwhile, Down In Somerset -- The School Duly Converted On 1st March 2015 -- Chapter 7 Meanwhile, Elsewhere in England -- Meanwhile, Elsewhere In England.