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Martin Allen  Rather Than ‘Two Nation’ Labour, a Good General Education for Everybody   Forum Vol 57 No 2015                                                                                   

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Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley  ‘The Great Reversal?  Education as enforcing social control not promoting social aspiration’   Contribution to BERA Social Justice seminar  Education, Youth Poverty and Social Class  22/11/13

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Martin Allen   ‘Raising standards’ or reducing expectations still further? Michael Gove and Examination Reform  Forum  Vol 55  No 3  2013     

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Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley   ‘Too Great Expectations of Education’  Surrey University 25/09/2013

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Patrick Ainley and Martin Allen  ‘Hard Times  for England in Education’    (http://www.hard-times-magazine.de/future.htm)

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Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley   ‘Education has become like running up a downwards escalator’  (http://www.teachers.org.uk/node/19169)

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Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley  ‘Young and old both suffer in a changing labour market’  Federation News  Vol 12 No 1

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Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley   Contribution to ‘The Riots One Year On, A One Day Conference’ 28/09/11, London South Bank University    RUNNING FROM THE RIOTS – UP A DOWN-ESCALATOR IN THE MIDDLE OF A CLASS STRUCTURE GONE PEAR-SHAPED

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Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley.  Why young people can’t get the jobs they want and what can be done about it.  Soundings Issue 51 Summer 2012

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Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley  ‘Lost Generation? New strategies for youth and education  Warwick Univ 09/02/11  Podcast

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Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley  Book chapter  for  Regeneration (Lawrence & Wishart 2012) ‘Overqualified and underemployed’: young people, education and the economy’

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Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley  ‘Can the Lost Generation find it’s way?’  Book chapter  No Country for the Young ( Hatcher and Jones 2011)

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Martin Allen  Education’s ‘Credibility Crunch’  Forum Vol  52  No 3  2010          

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 Martin Allen  Learning For Labour: specialist diplomas and 14-19 education   Forum Vol 49  No 3   2007

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Martin Allen   Unpublished PhD  Thesis  The rise and fall of the GNVQ. A  study of the changing relationship between young people and vocational qualifications at the start of the  21st century. (Open University 2004)

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