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The Public Schools Commission: 'Impractical, Expensive and Harmful to Children'?
- Source :
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Contemporary British History . Dec2010, Vol. 24 Issue 4, p511-531. 21p. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- In the mid-1960s, the Labour government established a Commission to devise the best way of integrating Britain's elite independent schools with the state-financed school system. Despite-and because of-the left's scepticism of private education, the Commission faced enormous obstacles and their solution of state-subsidised boarding places was seen as unworkable, unaffordable and unpopular. Government papers help to explain the various reasons why the Commission's proposals were not implemented: in particular, the public schools were regarded as a low spending priority. The lack of reform is key to understanding the continuing importance of independent schools in the UK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13619462
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Contemporary British History
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 55204932
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2010.518413