THE NEW GOVERNANCE OF EDUCATION - THE CONSERVATIVES AND EDUCATION 1988-1997

Authors
PIERSON C
Citation
C. Pierson, THE NEW GOVERNANCE OF EDUCATION - THE CONSERVATIVES AND EDUCATION 1988-1997, Oxford review of education, 24(1), 1998, pp. 131-142
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Education & Educational Research
Journal title
Oxford review of education → ACNP
ISSN journal
03054985
Volume
24
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
131 - 142
Database
ISI
SICI code
0305-4985(1998)24:1<131:TNGOE->2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
The governance and management of the English education system has been transformed over the past decade in an avalanche of reforms beginning with the Education Reform Act of 1988. Throughout this period, Conser vative governments' policy was driven by a set of assumptions about ch oice, markets, standards, public management, accountability and the re lationship between competitiveness, economic growth and the education system. Their expectations have not always been vindicated by experien ce.