The new edition of this text by a leading authority provides a comprehensive but critical assessment of the making of education policy in Britain today covering pre-school and higher as well as primary and secondary education - and taking full account of the impact of devolution.[...]

This book is a study into the way in which a belief in genetic determinism in the area of human intellectual capacity grew out of a set of ideas about sustaining the quality of the human race and how this in turn influenced the structure of the British ed[...]