Fit for purpose
“The ominous warning for the new schools is that self-government and charitable status provide no guarantees for the delivery of improved education within a unitary state system”
When Confucius was asked what he would do first if the reins of government were handed over to him he said ‘rectify the names’. On that basis the new government is making a good start with its ministries, with the Department for Education replacing the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Office for
Civil Society, with Nick Hurd as its minister, supplanting the Office of the Third Sector.
Author: Martin Albrow
Martin Albrow is a sociologist and emeritus professor of the University of Wales.
Since returning from the United States, where he was a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington DC, he has helped to edit the Global Civil Society Yearbook and works on civil society and global governance issues.
He acts as consultant to civil society organisations and is an advocate for the idea of a civil society university. He is also affiliated to the LSE global governance research centre.
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