The Politics of the Training Market

by Evans, Brendan

• ISBN13: 9780415000161
• ISBN10: 0415000165
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-11-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Training has in recent years become one of the most salient issues in British politics. From the "enterprise culture" of the Thatcher years emerged the new concept of the training market, and the recent establishment of the Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs). Drawing on the theoretical methodology of major policy analysts and political scientists,The Politics of the Training Marketsets the current debate in the context of changing initiatives over the past thirty years. Brendan Evans explains the policy processes and ideological assumptions underpinning recent innovations, and offers a searching and up-to-date analysis of the outcomes of both the TEC and training voucher experiments. Finally, the author reflects on the new "hybrid" political forms produced by recent training policy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. viii
Industrial Training before the Msc	p. 1
The Manpower Services Commission: 1973 to 1981	p. 19
The Msc in Its Glory: 1981 to 1987	p. 49
After the Msc	p. 90
The Rise of the Training and Enterprise Councils (Tecs)	p. 127
The Msc, the Tecs, Training Markets and Public Policy Theory	p. 189
Notes	p. 228
Suggested Further Reading	p. 244
Index	p. 246
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