ABSTRACT
The scope and pace of change in education at the start of the 1990s are nothing short of breathtaking.
In Britain, England and Wales now have, for the first time ever, a national curriculum framework and provision for nation-wide tests at the primary and secondary levels. All secondary schools and most primary schools have total control of their budgets, with schools having the power to opt out of control by their local education authorities on the majority vote of parents. Plans for the further empowerment of parents are apparent in the release of The Parent’s Charter.1
