ERIC ED374622: Markets, Competition and Vulnerability: Some Effects...

	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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