The Crisis of the Meritocracy

Britain's Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War

Mandler, Peter (Professor of Modern Cultural History and Bailey Lecturer in History, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge)

Oxford University Press, 2020

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The story of the revolutionary transformation of the British educational system in the second half of the 20th century from a rigid hierarchy for a minority, to a fundamental right of all citizens, one of the most valued and enduring features of the welfare state - and the crisis of the meritocracy that this has entailed.

ISBN-13
9780198840145
ISBN-10
0198840144
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2020
Publication date
2020-09-10
Pages
384
Dimensions
164 x 244 x 38
Weight
608