Affirming the Comprehensive Ideal

by Richard Pring (Editor)

Examines the ideals which lay behind the development of comprehensive schools. Written by 14 British educationalists, this text considers the evidence and suggests how further progress might be made within the moral framework of secondary education for all, irrespective of background or ability. The text includes an afterword by the Rt Hon John Prescott, MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.

217 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 11, 1997

About the author

Professor Emeritus, Department of Education, University of Oxford.

PhL (Gregorian, Rome), BA (UCL), PhD (London). Honours: Bene Merente Medal (Pope Pius XII, 1959), Hon. D.Litt (University of Kent, 1984), Aga Khan Award of Distinction, 2008), Hon.D.Litt, (University of London: Inst. of Education, 2015)

Director of the Department of Educational Studies at Oxford University until retirement in May 2003. From 2003 he was Lead Director of the Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training, a £1,000,000 six year project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.

Completed the following research projects in addition to the Nuffield Review: the evaluation of the Oxford Bursary Scheme with John Fox, a £125,000 project funded from Atlantic Philanthropies, and an evaluation of quality assurance in 11 Arab Universities, with a grant funding of £12,000 from the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme).

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