Add to ORKGRarely have changes to state funded school education in the United Kingdom (UK) been as significant or lasting as during the 1970 - 1990 period, under the direction of Education Secretary, and then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. This article will establish Thatcher’s place in the timeline of UK state funded education, before discussing the major changes to educational policy and teaching practice during the Thatcher premiership, including the complex socio-economic, cultural, and political context of these changes. Of particular interest is the 1988 Education Act, and the legacy this has had on UK schools and education
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Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government is planning legislation to initiate a radical overhaul o...
There is a growing disaffection with mainstream politics in the world’s liberal democracies. In part...
This paper revisits the abolition of the colleges of education in England and Wales, specialist prov...
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Free schools were a flagship policy of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition (2010–15), aligne...
Three decades after the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, it is perhaps time to take ...
This article traces the development of the education service in the 1970s and deals with the influen...
The changes in educational policy in Britain that are being promoted by Margaret Thatcher's governme...
This article deals with the contemporary reform of English Education System. As a result of last gen...
The key policies initiated in the 1980s such as structural reforms (school and provider diversificat...
This article examines the nature and effects of the radical reforms to English school governance sin...
The Thatcherite approach to secondary education, which has broadly been adhered to by subsequent gov...
The article provides an overview of the extensive and fast-moving reforms initiated by Michael Gove...
By 1979, the British economy was in complete and utter disarray. Inflation was at record highs along...
Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1979-1990. During this period she impleme...
Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government is planning legislation to initiate a radical overhaul o...
There is a growing disaffection with mainstream politics in the world’s liberal democracies. In part...
This paper revisits the abolition of the colleges of education in England and Wales, specialist prov...
This article examines particular changes in the 1960s and the early 1970s in the pattern of secondar...
Free schools were a flagship policy of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition (2010–15), aligne...
Three decades after the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, it is perhaps time to take ...
This article traces the development of the education service in the 1970s and deals with the influen...
The changes in educational policy in Britain that are being promoted by Margaret Thatcher's governme...
This article deals with the contemporary reform of English Education System. As a result of last gen...
The key policies initiated in the 1980s such as structural reforms (school and provider diversificat...
This article examines the nature and effects of the radical reforms to English school governance sin...
The Thatcherite approach to secondary education, which has broadly been adhered to by subsequent gov...
The article provides an overview of the extensive and fast-moving reforms initiated by Michael Gove...
By 1979, the British economy was in complete and utter disarray. Inflation was at record highs along...