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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
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