EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHERS: INQUIRY 1

Britain's educational publishers, for too long the laggards in educational development, are at last responding to the changes wrought by successive education acts and curriculum reform. Previously the sleepy refuges of tired (or failed) teachers, in the past decade the publishing houses have undergone a quiet revolution. Out has gone Mr Chips, to be replaced by a brand of publishing executive owing more to management accounting than to those money‐spinning Latin primers and grammar‐school texts.