ABSTRACT
We can get bogged down in academics-what we really want is time to implement the National Curriculum.
(Comment by headteacher)
Introduction
The previous chapters have established that right-wing ideas have had a significant impact on governments and educational institutions in many countries. Indeed, in many ways they still set the agenda for the management and administration of these educational systems. Concerns over bureaucratic inefficiencies, producer quality, greater customer responsiveness and choice are all normally perceived to have been driven by radical liberal thought over the last two decades, and continue to be a dominant strain of New Modernist thought.
