ABSTRACT
The Thatcher decade formally ended with John Major’s election as leader of the Conservative party in November 1990. It was a decade of change for education and training, marked by a deluge of acronyms and new programmes. It was a poor Monday when the government was unable to announce a new initiative or to confirm that last week’s pilot was now to go national. Bad publicity was a sure catalyst for action and there was a steady re-modelling and re-launching of schemes making serious evaluation problematic.
