This text provides an authoritative overview of the key aspects of education for students beyond the introductory stages of a degree programme in Education Studies, enabling students to deepen their understanding.

Examines fundamental ideas and issues related to education studies, explores educational contexts, and offers study and research guidance. This book addresses the following questions: Do private schools legitimise privilege? Should the liberal state support religious schooling? And do schools contribute to social and community cohesion?

Telling the story of British and Irish writing from 1963 to the present, this handbook guides the reader through the major writers, genres and developments in English writing over the past 40 years. It also offers notes on language issues, quotations from selected works, a timeline and a guide to other works.

"Previously known as The Economist Guide to the European Union."