A Common Policy for Education by Mary Warnock
This book places the arguments of the current debate on education into perspective, analyzes the essential issues and proposes a way forward. Warnock outlines the principles underlying education at all levels and argues that there should be a common policy within which providers of education can share essentially common aims. She considers the system of public examinations linking secondary and tertiary education, and looks for a more flexible and informative system than blocks of examinations at 16 and 18. There is a critical review of methods of teacher training and suggests ways in which the status and professionalism of teachers could be enhanced. There are propositions for ways in which higher education could become more adaptable and more highly regarded than it is at present.
Mary Warnock was born in Winchester and educated at St Swithun's School and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She was Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Hugh's College, Oxford for fifteen years, and Headmistress of the Oxford High School for six. She was Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge from 1984 till 1991, and became a Life Peer in 1985. She has chaired various Government committees, and written books on philosophy and on education. She is married to Sir Geoffrey Warnock, and they live in Wiltshire.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192177629 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192177621 |
| Title | A Common Policy for Education |
| Author | Mary Warnock |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1988-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 190 |
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