Wise talks about the imposition of legislation on schools. He features two problems:
- The tendency of (western) schools to chase targets to the exclusion of other objectives of education – the teach to test or teach to OfSTED syndrome
- The problem of disconnection of means and ends where means are specified without process to achieve the desired ends or ends are specified without obvious means to achieve them. He calls this hyperrationalisation
The first is in a way the opposite of the problem addressed by Jansen – who complained that host governments do not chase targets. The second is more in line with Government Aid reality – that ends are specified for which the means or process do not exist.
