1st Edition

Privatization and Privilege in Education (RLE Edu L)

By Geoffrey Walford Copyright 1990
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Can privilege be bought? Arguments have raged over whether private education in the UK is ‘the cement in the wall’ dividing British society, or whether parental choice is, as has also been argued ‘a key component of a free society’. The author here describes the traditional private sector schools, paying attention to the ways in which parents can purchase privilege for their children through... Read more

List of Tables. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Private Schools. 2. Politics and Private Schools. 3. Can you buy privilege? 4. Privatisation. 5. The 1988 Education Reform Act. 6. Choice and Freedom or Structured Inequality? References. Index.

Biography

Geoffrey Walford