Mandy persists...

...in trying to turn education into a training ground for the world of (serious) "business."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/nov/03/peter-mandelson-university-review-modernisation

A good critique of neo-liberal attitudes towards education here:

"But all this talk of the Reality of business needs to be taken with more than a pinch of salt. I mean, it's not as if dealing with teenagers every day is living out some escapist fantasy while performing PowerPoint presentations to irritable CEOs and spooling out vacuous semiotic pollution puts you in unshielded contact with the seething burn-core of the cosmos."