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Gunter, Helen M.; Hughes, Belinda C. – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2022
An education reform claimocracy is rule by assertion, and in this article we examine the claims made for the academisation and MATification of the provision of and access to school places in England. We examine the claimocracy at work in regard to the Conservative government white paper, "Opportunity for All. Strong Schools with Great…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Access to Education, Politics of Education
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Wiborg, Susanne – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2017
This article investigates how vested interests, particularly the teacher unions, responded to the British Labour government's school reforms designed to increase educational equality. Two significant reforms introduced to this end were Circular 10/65 on comprehensive education and the Learning and Skills Act of 2000 on the City Academies. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy
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Alexander, Robin – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2014
Here, at "FORUM's" invitation, is the text of the 2014 Godfrey Thomson Trust public lecture at the University of Edinburgh. Its backdrop is the centralisation of educational decision-making in England since 1988 and the power and patronage exercised by the Secretary of State. Taking as examples recent policies on childhood, curriculum…
Descriptors: Evidence, Elementary Education, Educational Change, Change Strategies