Schools are currently being asked to collaborate and compete with each other. Britain's 1988 Education Reform Act and the Technical and Vocational Initiative (TVEI) seem to promote conflicting school development models. This paper explores these policies' background and investigates how one TVEI cluster is responding to this challenge. Conclusions…

Explores possibilities for developing collaboration within and between schools and colleges to subvert central government pressures for greater competition between institutions. Examines the collaboration concept, issues connected with its promotion, potential links between collaboration and state schooling as a public professional service, the…