Green, Francis;
Kynaston, David;
(2019)
The Necessity of Reforming Britain's Private Schools.
Forum
, 61
(2)
pp. 281-288.
10.15730/forum.2019.61.2.281.
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Abstract
The existence of extremely expensive private schools - about one in 10 of all our schools - presents a major problem for Britain's education system. A new public education system could not coexist with the current, unreformed private school system; therefore, reform is a necessary condition for this project. Private schools are, on the whole, good schools, owing their successes largely to a massive resource input, some three times that of the state sector. But this distortion of our educational resources is enormously unjust, as well as inefficient and supportive of a democratic deficit in British society. Some solutions are noted; while not dogmatic about which should be adopted, the authors explain why their preferred solution is a partial integration of the sectors, in particular what they term a 'Fair Access Scheme'.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | The Necessity of Reforming Britain's Private Schools |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.15730/forum.2019.61.2.281 |
Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.15730/forum.2019.61.2.281 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the final published version. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10077819 |
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