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Education Policy

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This article summarises the 2010–15 Coalition government's education policy, contrasting their attempts to liberalise education markets with the desire to impose a highly traditional curriculum. The government's quite radical reforms have not been easy to implement, taking place against severe budgetary constraints and a minority Coalition partner with ambitions to improve the educational outcomes of children from low income families. It could be argued that the reforms have been successfully implemented, and there is little prospect of wholesale reversal by any future government. However, their combative approach to reform leaves a demotivated teacher workforce, a possible impending teacher recruitment crisis as the economy recovers, and a tangled web of accountability structures that will need to be resolved.

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  • Rebecca Allen, 2015. "Education Policy," National Institute Economic Review, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, vol. 231(1), pages 36-43, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:niesru:v:231:y:2015:i:1:p:r36-r43
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    1. Rosa Arboretti Giancristofaro & Stefano Bonnini & Luigi Salmaso, 2009. "Employment status and education/employment relationship of PhD graduates from the University of Ferrara," Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(12), pages 1329-1344.
    2. Kerry A. King, 2007. "Charter Schools in Arizona: Does Being a For-Profit Institution Make a Difference?," Journal of Economic Issues, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(3), pages 729-746, September.
    3. Steven Miller & Eric Bradlow & Kevin Dayaratna, 2006. "Closed-form Bayesian inferences for the logit model via polynomial expansions," Quantitative Marketing and Economics (QME), Springer, vol. 4(2), pages 173-206, June.
    4. Cynthia Hill & David Welsch, 2009. "For-profit versus not-for-profit charter schools: an examination of Michigan student test scores," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(2), pages 147-166.

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    education policy; coalition government;

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    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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