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Direct linkGillies, Donald – Journal of Education Policy, 2008
Two key themes of recent UK education policy texts have been a focus on "quality" in public sector performance, and on "equality" in the form of New Labour's stated commitment to equality of opportunity as a key policy objective. This twin approach can be seen at its most obvious in the concept of "excellence for…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Risk, Public Sector, Educational Policy
Gillies, Donald – Education, Knowledge & Economy: A Journal for Education and Social Enterprise, 2007
"Excellence" has been a prevalent term in New Labour rhetoric on education, most notably in the stated goal of "excellence for all" in education. Despite that, the meaning of the term has remained imprecise, and the implications of universal excellence unclear. In this paper, three distinct definitions of excellence are…
Descriptors: Total Quality Management, Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change
