Abstract
The Further and Higher Education Act (1992) brought about the incorporation of further education (FE) colleges in England and Wales. This legislation effectively removed the influence and control that Local Education Authorities (LEAs) had over the educational provision of colleges and created a quasi-market in which local colleges were forced to compete for students and funds. My research involved an investigation into how quasi-marketisation impacted upon the work and lives of teachers, middle and senior managers in three colleges in the city of Coppleton in the West Midlands region of England. I was interested in exploring how quasi-marketisation affected staff at different levels within the colleges and whether dominant cultures emerged. My findings were that the managerialist practices that became widespread through the sector as a consequence of quasi-marketisation were deployed strategically within colleges; that marketisation served to place colleges’ self-interest over the interests of students; and that the quasi-market environment impacted on data in specific (negative) ways.Citation
Journal of Education Administration and History, 39(1) Special Practitioners’ Research Edition: 33-47.Publisher
London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis).Journal
Journal of Educational Administration and HistoryAdditional Links
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220620701194275Type
Journal articleLanguage
enISSN
00220620ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/00220620701194275