A Study of Secondary Education Reform in the United Kingdom : Comprehensive Schools and Diversification Policies

目前在英国执政的工党政府一直在推动具有以下特点的政策：增加新型中学，赋予个别学校更多管理OVA事务的权力，以及强调家长选择学校。我们对这些政策对综合性学校的影响感兴趣，这些学校传统上得到工党的支持，已经成为大多数中学，所以我们试图通过文学评论和访问英国的学校和研究人员来掌握这些政策的主要特点和学校的实际情况。而本届政府的政策，重点是增加新型中学，旨在通过家长选择和学校之间的竞争来提高学校标准，以便英国在发达国家的经济竞争中生存。我们可以找到政策的另一个方面，重视对贫困地区和家庭的支持这些政策是Social a…的特点L的民主政策更多地强调福利和支持，而其他方面的政策则遵循强调竞争的新自由主义理想。新类型的中学正在尝试引入赞助和校外的另一种支持，并在这些支持下专注于国家课程内的特定专业，以形成自己的特色和民族精神。这些特点和“精神”将帮助父母选择他们孩子的学校。然而，由于这些新类型的中学是从现有的、在某些情况下是失败的学校改建或重建的，它们并不能摆脱前人的评估，如何克服这种评估似乎是它们未来的挑战。特别是对于投入了大量公共资源的院校，它们必须证明自己的成本效益。目前，2006年教育和检查法案已于2月份提交议会，正在审议中。我们感到非常遗憾，这项研究在这项新立法的最终命运之前就结束了。较少

Labour Government, currently in office in the UK has been promoting policies characterized such features as increasing new kinds of secondaxy schools, giving more powers individual schools managing their owa matters, and emphasizing parental choice of schools We axe interested in influences of such policies on comprehensive schools, which have traditionally been supported by labour Party and have become a large majority of secondary schools So we tried to grasp main features of these policies and real conditions of schools through literary reviews and visiting schools and researchers in the UKWhile policies of current government which focus increasing new kinds of secondary schools are aiming at raising school standards through parental choice and competition between schools for the UK to survive economic competition among developed countries, we can find another aspects of policies, attaching importance to support deprived areas and families Those policies are characteristics of socia … More l democratic policies emphasizing welfare and support, while anther aspects of policies are following neo-liberal ideals emphasizing competition.New kinds of secondary schools are trying to introduce sponsorships and another supports from outside schools, and with these supports are focusing on particular specialism within National Curriculum to make their own particular characteristics and ‘ethos'. Those characteristics and ‘ethos' would help parents choose their children's schools. However since those new kind of secondary schools have been remodeled or reestablished from existing, in some case failing, schools, they are not free from their predecessors' evaluation, and how to overcome such evaluation seems to be their future challenge. And especially in the case of academies, which are invested lot of public resources, they must prove their cost-effectiveness.At present, the Education and Inspection Bill 2006 has been introduced into the Parliament in February, and under deliberation. We feel very sorry this study ended before the final fate of this new legislation. Less