ANDY GREEN is Professor of Comparative Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK. He has published widely on a range of education issues, with major works translated into Chinese, German, Japanese and Spanish. His published books include "High Skills: Globalization, Competitiveness and Skills Formation" (with Phil Brown and Hugh Lauder), "Convergences and Divergences in European Education and Training Systems" (with Alison Wolf and Tom Leney), "Education, Globalization and the Nation State" and "Education and State Formation: The Rise of Education Systems in England, Fr...