Charter schools elevate choice and competition to foster educational innovations. Indeed,
these market-style mechanisms are intended to challenge standardized practices …

This chapter will review recent research literature concerning the progress and effects of the
currently fashionable" parental choice" and" school autonomy" agendas in contemporary …

This book investigates the intensifying struggle for excellence between universities in a
globalized academic field. The rise of the entrepreneurial university and academic …

The sixth edition of this successful textbook discusses elements of the welfare system,
including cash benefits, the health service and education. The text argues that the welfare …

Chapter 1 is based upon the Karl Mannheim Memorial Lecture, which I delivered at the
Institute of Education, University of London, in January 1997 on the fiftieth anniversary of …

Recent education reform in many countries has sought to dismantle centralized educational
bureaucracies to create systems that emphasize parental choice and competition between …

Governments across the world are pursuing reform in an effort to improve public services.
But have these reforms actually led to improvements in services? Evaluating Public …

This report seeks to address critical issues such as these by synthesising the evidence on
innovations in more market-driven education systems. The analysis draws on data from over …

This article analyses the impact of competitive arenas on schools' logics of action in six local
European contexts (London, Paris, Lille, Charleroi, Budapest and Lisbon). It first examines …

This title was first published in 2000. A series of major reforms during the 1980s and 1990s
have led to the transformation of the Education System in England and Wales. The new …