ERIC ED374622: Markets, Competition and Vulnerability: Some Effects... | |
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The emphasis in recent British educational legislation | |
(primarily the 1988 Education Act) has been on the | |
creation of an "internal market" to stimulate | |
improvements in educational outcomes and provide | |
efficiency and accountability. The internal market | |
mechanism allows schools to manage their own budgets and | |
personnel and to create competition by extending parental | |
choice of schools. The creation of a market system within | |
education will increasingly disadvantage pupils with | |
special educational needs. The notion of equality of | |
educational opportunity has been sacrificed for a system | |
where over-subscribed schools have the power to choose | |
pupils and less popular schools have to accept those | |
pupils rejected by other schools. Special needs children | |
may be less attractive to schools competing for pupils to | |
enhance their test score rankings. Four annual surveys | |
have been conducted since 1989 on the impact of Local | |
Management of Schools and other aspects of recent | |
legislation on provision for pupils with special | |
educational needs. Their findings indicate that the | |
pressures of reduced central funding and increased | |
demands on schools to demonstrate good results has meant | |
that more pupils than ever are being given Statements of | |
Special Educational Needs (SEN), who receive some | |
services from the local education authority. There is a | |
lack of clarity and a fragmentation of responsibilities | |
for children with SEN. (Contains 28 references.) (JDD) | |
Date Published: 2014-10-19 14:05:52 | |
Identifier: ERIC_ED374622 | |
Item Size: 22643482 | |
Language: english | |
Media Type: texts | |
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