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Direct linkWest, Anne; Barham, Eleanor; Hind, Audrey – Oxford Review of Education, 2011
The distribution of pupils amongst schools is fundamental to concerns about equality of educational opportunity and it is for this reason that the process by which pupils are admitted to schools is of significance. This paper focuses on admissions criteria and practices used by English secondary schools in 2001 and 2008 in light of changes to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Opportunities, Admission (School)
West, Anne; Pennell, Hazel; Hind, Audrey – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2009
Market-oriented reforms and school choice policies have had a high political profile in a number of developed countries. This article examines the issue of school choice through the lens of the English market-oriented reforms; it focuses on the quasi-regulation and regulation of admissions to publicly funded secondary schools. It examines…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, School Choice, Foreign Countries, Admission Criteria
West, Anne; Hind, Audrey; Pennell, Hazel – Oxford Review of Education, 2004
This article examines secondary school admissions criteria in England. The analysis revealed that in a significant minority of schools, notably those responsible for their own admissions--voluntary-aided and foundation schools--a variety of criteria were used which appear to be designed to select certain groups of pupils and so exclude others.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Needs, Admission Criteria, Secondary Schools
West, Anne; Ingram, Dabney; Hind, Audrey – Educational Policy, 2006
This article focuses on student admissions to charter schools in the United States and to autonomous (foundation and voluntary-aided) secondary schools in England. Analyses of the admissions criteria used by autonomous and nonautonomous secondary schools in England revealed that more autonomous than nonautonomous schools reported using potentially…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Charter Schools, Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools
