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Saturday, December 17, 2005
School reform in the UK
The argument goes on. The deputy prime
minister of the UK John Prescott has spoken again, against the white paper in an
interview with the Sunday Telegraph. (
An overview of the argument on both sides was
given be Mike Baker, BBC Education Correspondent
(Friday,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4450638.stm
Here are some interesting
segments of this article.
A long line of Downing
Street education advisors (from Sir Michael Barber and Lord Adonis to Conor Ryan
and Sir Cyril Taylor) have argued that schools thrive when they develop their
own particular ethos, manage their own affairs, and are free from the stifling
hand of public sector bureaucracy.
Some in
The government vehemently denies that trust schools are the same thing as the
grant maintained schools invented by Lady Thatcher's Conservative government.
They have a point: grant maintained schools received preferential funding, were
able to become more selective, and could become totally separate from local
education authorities.
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