New @DiscoverSoc Issue on Merit and Meritocracy

Edited by Anselma Gallinat, Lisa Garforth and Geoff Payne from Newcastle University, the new special issue of the open access publication Discover Society is about Merit and Meritocracy, and features articles about academies and the politics of schooling, the history of meritocracy and universities and class. Dr Jo Littler from CCCI has a piece in the issue entitled ‘Meritocracy as Neoliberal Mantra’ which you can read here.