Alan Smithers - Publications

Publications

He has published many influential books and reports, often in collaboration with Dr Pamela Robinson, including:

• Choice and Selection in Education: the experience of other countries (2010)
• The Good Teacher Training Guide 2010 (2010)
• Worlds Apart: social variation among schools (2010)
• Physics Particpation and Policies: lessons from abroad (2009)
• Specialist Science Schools (2009)
• The Diploma: a disaster waiting to happen? (2008)
• Blair's Education: an international perspective (2007)
• Physics in Schools and Colleges (2007)
• School Headship (2007)
• The Paradox of Single Sex and Coeducational Schooling (2006)
• England’s Education (2004)
• Attracting Teachers (2000)
• Further Education Reformed (2000)
• The Impact of Double Science (1994)
• General Studies (1993)
• Graduates in the Police Service (1990)
• Increasing Participation in Higher Education (1989)
• The Growth of Mixed A-Levels (1988)
• The Progress of Mature Students (1986)
• Sandwich Courses: an Integrated Education? (1976).

Two of his reports were featured as Dispatches programmes on Channel 4, Every Child in Britain (1991) and All Our Futures: Britain’s Education Revolution (1993). He been a frequent commentator on the policies of successive governments. His reviews of Blair’s education have appeared in Anthony Seldon’s books, The Blair Effect: The Blair Government 1997-2001 (2001) and The Blair Effect 2001-2005 (2005).