Critically evalue the aims of Vouchers Systems for Education in General

... Critically evalue the aims of Vouchers Systems for Education in General From the beginning of the 1980's, Conservative party policy was highly influenced by the virtues of the free market as advocated by a number of right-wing theorists and think-tanks. Like the rest of the public sector, education was not to escape the wrath of New Right ideological reforms that were to ensue. The principal aims of educational policy were to make the system more responsive to industry and more susceptible to market forces; the desired means of achieving the latter being increased parental choice through the introduction of a scheme of educational vouchers. Educational vouchers emerged from the USA in the 1960's and have been described by Arthur Seldon of the Institute of Economic Affairs as "a highly flexible instrument, with many variations, that would replace the financing of schools through taxes under political control and bureaucratic supervision by payments direct

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