The assisted plages scheme: An ambiguous case of privatizationFootnote¹
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).

John Fitz Senior Lecturer, Bristol Polytechnic, Redland Hill, Bristol, BS6 6UZ

Tony Edwards Professor of Education, University of Newcastle

Geoff Whitty Professor of Education, Bristol Polytechnic

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