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A Country on Its Way to Full Privatisation? Private Schools and School Choice in England

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The history of private education and school choice in England is a long one. England is a country known historically for its centuries-old private school traditions embodied in institutions such as Eton College, Winchester College, Harrow and Westminster schools. Moreover, ever since the 1980s, it has been an international pioneer in promoting national education policy reforms that have sought increasingly to marketise and privatise state school education.

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Notes

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    In 1972, the school leaving age in England was raised to 16. Since 2015, the leaving age has been raised to 18.

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    This was a system in England which separated students, in accordance with their differing abilities and aptitudes (ascertained at age 11 in an’11-plus’ exam), into ‘grammar’ schools, technical schools and secondary modern schools.

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    Some other school types also possess this freedom.

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Exley, S. (2017). A Country on Its Way to Full Privatisation? Private Schools and School Choice in England. In: Koinzer, T., Nikolai, R., Waldow, F. (eds) Private Schools and School Choice in Compulsory Education. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-17104-9_3

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