A Study of the Influences of Economic Change and Budgeting Systems over Secondary-Education Policies in England after the Second World War (1945-1974)

• Main Authors: Sunniva Tzu-Chin LIU, 劉子菁
• Other Authors: Yu-wen Chou
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/nxj4qj

博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育學系 === 101 === This thesis adopts social history approach inquiring the reform of budgetary systems caused by economic changes after Second World War in England to influence the development of secondary education policies. During the period, modern budget-system reforms by British Government, including Public Expenditure Survey Committee (PESC) in early 1960s and Programme Analysis and Review (PAR) in early 1970s, further interconnected secondary education development with economic changes. It is revealed that the PESC system controlled the scale, organization, cost and timetable of secondary education policies; as to the PAR system, it deeply influenced assessment standards of expenditure, objectives and curriculum of secondary education. In the policy dimension, it is established that the development of raising of the school-leaving age policy nearly three decades, the Treasury involved and controlled the timetable and crucial budget through interdepartmental activities and Cabinet Committee. In addition, under severe threat of fiscal retrenchment, the assessment standard of school-building programmes was forced to be replaced. Facing the economic crisis and fiscal retrenchment in early 1970s, it is showed that the consensus of the 1944 Education Act established since Second World War gradually collapsed, and the new consensus created by J. Callaghan’s Labour Government in 1976 shed the light of the M. Thatcher’s New Right strategy in 1980s.