Mike Wallace is Professor of Educational Management and Policy at the University of Wales in Cardiff. In this article he examines a merger involving three primary schools as a means of identifying and analysing the ways in which the implementation of a particular policy is shaped by its relationship within a nexus of relationships with other policies.
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