Patrick Ainley
Patrick Ainley is Professor of Training and
Education at the University of Greenwich School of Education and Training.
His books include: ‘Learning
Policy, Towards the Certified Society’, Macmillan 1999; ‘Apprenticeship: Towards a New Paradigm of
Learning’, (edited with Helen Rainbird) Kogan Page 1999; ‘The Business of Learning, Staff and Student
Experiences of Further Education in the 1990s’ (with Bill Bailey), Cassell
1997; ‘Degrees of Difference, Higher
Education in the 1990s’, Lawrence and Wishart 1994; ‘Class and Skill’, Cassell 1993; ‘Training for the Future, The rise and fall of the Manpower Services
Commission’ (with Mark Corney), Cassell 1990 – still the only history of
this pioneering agency; ‘From School to
YTS’, Open University Press 1988; and with Martin Allen – Education Make
You Fick, Innit? What has gone wrong in England’s schools, colleges and
universities and how to start putting it right, Tufnell Press 2007.
He is co-convenor of the Society for Research into Higher
Education’s Student Experience Network and his current research interests include: Diplomas, FE-HE
interface, HE student experience, new tertiary tripartism from 14+
(researching, teaching and training universities), widening participation to
this hierarchy, ‘skills’ as opposed to competence, knowledge as opposed to
information, radical pedagogies, privatisation and commodification in relation
to Changing divisions of knowledge and labour.
