Educational and economic history: The good neighbours

History of Education

Volumn 36, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 429-445

  Sanderson, Michael ^a  

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72. Harold Brighouse's famous play was staged in 1916 but represented prewar years. Maggie spends part of her honeymoon improving her husband's literacy. By the final act he is a confident middle-class businessman.
73. Financial Times, 18 August 2006, Advertisement for the Sector Skills Councils. This also claims that 57 per cent of employers are dissatisfied with the education of recruits.
74. See also FT, 14 August 2006, "CBI in science warning over 'dire' school leavers".
75. Zmroczek, op. cit., in extensive historical interviewing of Norwich women who were girls in the interwar years shows the importance of family connections, notably uncles, in getting jobs. Also she shows the importance of private secretarial colleges for non-university middle-class girls and the ablest of the working class.
76. Mathias, op. cit., is perceptive on the differences in the historians' and the economists' approaches to economic history, which, are fruitful here.