The assisted plages scheme: An ambiguous case of privatization¹

This paper draws upon our research project on ‘The State, and Private Education: a study of the Assisted Places Scheme’. SSRC/ESRC Project No C00230036, 1982–86. We are grateful to ESRC for their support of this study. For fuller reports of the findings, see J. Fitz, A. Edwards, and G. Whitty: ‘Beneficiaries, Benefits and Costs’ in Research Papers in Education 1(3), 1986, pp. 169–193; G. Whitty, J. Fitz and A. Edwards: ‘Assisting Whom? Benefits and Cost of the Assisted Places Scheme’, in A. Hargreaves and D. Reynolds (eds) Education Policies: Controversies and Critiques (Falmer Press, Lewes, 1989); and A. Edwards, J. Fitz and G. Whitty: The State and Private Education: an evaluation of the Assisted Places Scheme (Falmer Press, Lewes, 1989).

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This paper draws upon our research project on ‘The State, and Private Education: a study of the Assisted Places Scheme’. SSRC/ESRC Project No C00230036, 1982–86. We are grateful to ESRC for their support of this study. For fuller reports of the findings, see J. Fitz, A. Edwards, and G. Whitty: ‘Beneficiaries, Benefits and Costs’ in Research Papers in Education 1(3), 1986, pp. 169–193; G. Whitty, J. Fitz and A. Edwards: ‘Assisting Whom? Benefits and Cost of the Assisted Places Scheme’, in A. Hargreaves and D. Reynolds (eds) Education Policies: Controversies and Critiques (Falmer Press, Lewes, 1989); and A. Edwards, J. Fitz and G. Whitty: The State and Private Education: an evaluation of the Assisted Places Scheme (Falmer Press, Lewes, 1989).