ABSTRACT
Over the last quarter century, further education in England has been found particularly vulnerable to colonization by the market-orientated values associated with neoliberalisation. Recent history suggests that current notions of professionalism may be irrevocably tainted by neoliberalisation. For teachers in further education, the collapse of the neoliberal order can be evidenced in the bifurcation of consciousness it has brought about. "Corporate capitalism and neoliberal ideology have produced lasting damage in the material structures of the world and in the social, cultural, and nervous systems of mankind". The production of data by individual institutions within a competitive market reinterprets accountability as a market-orientated set of practices that clearly connect to neoliberal models of governmentality. That there are issues associated with the neoliberal use of performance data in driving improvement in public sector organizations is not new. There are further signs of the way the neoliberal 'project' is chafing against what it is to be human.
