The impact of school autonomy and education marketization in the United Kingdom |
| |
| Affiliation: | 1. School of Public Administration, Jiangsu Institute of Social Security, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, No. 3 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, 210023, PR China;2. Jiangsu Institute of Social Security, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, No. 3 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing, 210023, PR China;1. Universidad de Chile, Diagonal Paraguay 257, Santiago, Chile;2. Economics Department, Universidad de Chile, Diagonal Paraguay 257, Santiago, Chile;1. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Department of Economics and Finance, 1201 West University Drive, Edinburg, TX 78539, United States;2. Kennesaw State University, Department of Economics, Finance, and Quantitative Analysis, 560 Parliament Garden Way, Kennesaw, GA 30144, United States;1. University of Roma Tre, Department of Economics, Rome, Italy;2. Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Economics and Law, Via del Castro Laurenziano 9, 00161, Rome, Italy;1. University of Malaya, Malaysia;2. University of Reading, UK;3. Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance, Oxford, UK;4. IZA, Bonn, Germany;5. Global Labor Organization (GLO), Germany;6. School of Business, Monash University, Malaysia;1. Arkansas State University, P.O. Box 1080, Jonesboro, AR 72467, United States;2. St. Lawrence University, Hepburn 204, Canton, NY 13617, United States;3. Korea Rural Economic Institute, 601, Bitgaram-ro, Naju-si, Jeollanam-do 58321, Republic of Korea |
| |
| Abstract: | The Education Reform Act 1988 in England proposed by the Conservative Party caused over 1100 public schools to “opt out” of local school authority control by becoming autonomous grant-maintained schools. Using a regression discontinuity design, this paper finds a causal effect of party control on school autonomy with British local election dataset. That is, a Labour party (not a Conservative party) win would consequently stimulate a considerable increase in local schools opting for autonomy. This could be the first empirical evidence of a remarkable cross-party consensus in education policy, which has so far been stressed only on theoretical grounds. Our findings not only improve the understanding of current government education policy but also suggest the role that government would play in future policy-making process. |
| |
| Keywords: | School autonomy policy Government Cross-party Consensus Market-based education reform |
| 本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录！ |
|
