Reshaping Education in the 1990s

by Chawla-Duggan,Rita

• ISBN13: 9780750705288
• ISBN10: 0750705280
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A comprehensive and highly readable account of secondary education following the changes brought about by the 1988 Education Reform Act.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgment
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction	p. 1
Dynamics of Competition - The Effects of Local Competitive Arenas on Schools	p. 11
Education and Business: Converging Models	p. 26
Unsaleable Goods and the Education Market	p. 40
The School, the Parent, the Banker and the Local Politician: What Can We Learn from the English Experience of Involving Lay People in the Site Based Management of Schools?	p. 55
School Governing Bodies in Northern Ireland: Responses to Local Management of Schools	p. 71
Devolved Management: Variations of Response in Scottish School Boards	p. 89
The Grant Maintained Schools Policy: The English Experience of Educational Self-Governance	p. 105
The New Headteacher: Budgetary Devolution and the Work Culture of Secondary Headship	p. 117
A Question of Costs: Budget Management in Secondary Schools	p. 130
Educational Change in the United Kingdom: A North-South Divide	p. 149
When 'Breadth and Balance' Means 'Balancing the Books': Curriculum Planning in Schools Post-ERA	p. 164
Notes on Contributors	p. 176
Index	p. 180
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