ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a number of key issues surrounding the management of technical and vocational education initiative (TVEI), each of which had implications for the success of TVEI's equal opportunities commitment. It examines TVEI's own record of promoting equal opportunities amongst its own staff, at school level, local education authorities level and at the level of the national TVEI Unit. This chapter explores the impact of the ‘Information Systems Strategy’ (ISS), the approach to the management of equal opportunities which was widely and vigorously promoted by the national equal opportunities advisers. The ISS approach placed considerable emphasis on the generation of hypotheses to explain gender inequalities in individual schools, and hence generate staffroom debate. A key element of the ISS approach was the formulation of hypotheses to explain the inequalities which were inevitably revealed by data on school outcomes. The chapter also examines the range of explanations which were considered by the individual pilot schools in Masonfield.
