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The reform of general secondary education quality management in Great Britain: historical aspect
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The article reflects the historical peculiarities of reforming general secondary education quality management in Great Britain. The characteristic of peculiarities of secondary education quality management in Great Britain is made through the prism of reforming processes in education management in general. The documents of education reforms 1840–1975 years are analyzed. The role and functions of the governing bodies of national, local and school levels in the general secondary education quality management at different stages of historical development are clarified. The transition from selective to comprehensive secondary education system is traced in the article. It is proved that the wave nature of changes taking place in all spheres of social life at the present stage of its development determines the need for reformation of the experience of the past with the aim of finding solutions to urgent problems. The main attention in the article is given to the analysis of Education Act 1944 which was an attempt to implement totally different system of education management. It defined the powers of governing bodies: powers of the central government were related to the formation of the national educational policy and allocation of financial resources; powers of Local Education Authorities concerned the formation of educational policy and resource allocation at the local level; participants in the decision making process of the school level – principals and school boards – were responsible for the school policy and resource allocation at the level of the institution. It is concluded that at different stages of historical development was observed strengthening or weakening of centralization tendencies in the management of secondary education, including quality management, which was caused mainly by the political agenda of the ruling party. The perspective direction for further research the author considers the analysis of the current state and perspective directions of education quality management at the national, local and school levels of secondary education functioning in Great Britain.
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41-48
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2014-10-27
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Bibliografia
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Bibliografia
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