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Download full textAllen, Rebecca; Higham, Rob – London Review of Education, 2018
The opening of new state schools by non-state actors has intensified debates about social selection and inequality in quasi-markets. This article examines the case of England, where the government allows anyone to apply to open a new 'free school', arguing this will improve social equity. Using data from the National Pupil Database for all 325…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Schools, Neighborhoods, Student Recruitment
Direct linkHigham, Rob – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2014
The legal basis of free schools, provided for in the Academies Act 2010, allows the Secretary of State for Education "to enter into Academy arrangements with any person". A range of debate has ensued over who will govern free schools. This article develops an analysis of the individuals and organizations that have had free school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Schools, Privatization, Governance
Higham, Rob – Journal of Education Policy, 2014
Free school policy claims to partly decentralise to local proposers decisions over who provides a free school, where and for what reasons, within the constraints of a government approval process. This article analyses empirically the people and organisations doing the proposing and their interactions with the approval process. The article begins…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Free Schools, Privatization, Educational Policy
