Research Catalog

Title

Fee-paying schools and educational change in Britain : between the state and the marketplace / Ted Tapper.

Author

Tapper, Ted.

Publication

London ; Portland, OR : Woburn Press, 1997.

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Details

Description

xii, 219 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

This book offers a timely evaluation of how a unified educational system might be achieved. Could the private and maintained sectors merge into a new and different whole, or would selected access to educational resources inevitably sabotage such an ambition? The book begins with a historical overview of access to private schooling and shows how the public schools changed from charitable institutions for 'poor and needy scholars' to exclusive and privileged establishments for the children of the well-to-do. There have been well intentioned attempts to widen access to fee-paying schools, up to and including the recent assisted places scheme. Strikingly, despite the increase in fees to a level beyond the reach of all but the rich, the independent schools have not only survived the comprehensivisation years but have prospered. The author has an explanation for this phenomenon. The book concludes with a discussion on selection - the key to a divided educational system - and considers how the selection process may be made to work so that in the future all pupils may get the best from their education, regardless of family income or social background.

Series Statement

The Woburn education series

Uniform Title

Woburn education series

Subject

• Private schools > Great Britain > Finance
• Endowed public schools (Great Britain) > Finance
• Education and state > Great Britain
• Educational change > Great Britain
• Education and state
• Educational change
• Private schools > Finance
• Privatschule
• Öffentliche Schule
• Schulfinanzierung
• Public School
• Openbaar onderwijs
• Éducation > Grande-Bretagne
• Écoles privées > Grande-Bretagne
• Écoles publiques > Grande-Bretagne
• Public schools > Grande-Bretagne
• Éducation et État > Grande-Bretagne
• Écoles privées > Grande-Bretagne > Finances
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-214) and index.

Contents

Understanding educational change in the fee-paying sector -- Whatever happened to the poor and needy scholars? -- Charitable status and access to private schooling: a troubled relationship -- Uncoupling the maintained and fee-paying sectors: from 1944 to 1976 -- The Fleming Committee, the Public Schools Commission and the frustration of good intentions -- From the direct grant schools to the assisted places scheme -- Principles and politics in the process of educational change -- Making the product more widely available -- In pursuit of policy consensus -- From the politics of education to the economics of education.

ISBN

• 0713001976
• 9780713001976
• 0713040300
• 9780713040302

LCCN

96037181

OCLC

• ocm35792216
• 35792216
• SCSB-2126044

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library