Bringing the world’s diversity agenda to England

Underlying each is provision of educational opportunities. At the root of

It is important to realise that these reforms are the creating of a diversity agenda in

each reform is the key assumption that there is no reason why government and localauthority

bodies should deliver education – even if it is assumed that the government

should fund it. We have social benefits so that people can afford food and clothing, but

the government does not run food and clothing stores; and indeed everyone benefits from

having a large and diverse number of outlets providing these goods.

As we have seen, the overwhelming majority of European governments adopt this same

strategy in education, giving at least some measure of support to non-state education

providers – often small, parent-led learning initiatives. In England and Wales the

proposals here will help to:

-Break down the social apartheid between state and private sectors,

-Expand the diversity agenda more rapidly than might be possible by attempts at statesector  

-Provide innovative approaches that in turn will stimulate state schools to adopt new