... on leadership and character. Their pupils were fee paying borders who stayed in school to 18 or 19. 1988 Education Act The 1988 Education Act established a national curriculum for all state schools in England and Wales and a national system of testing and assesment. It reduced the role of local educational authorities by giving greater control to indevidual schools and their governing bodies. It established city technology colleges and grant maintained schools, both independent of local authority. New Vocationalism The concern to improve education's supply of labour to employers led to the emergence of what whiteside has called a 'loose alliance' of politicians, civil servants, industrialists and trade unionists. This alliance advocated the 'new vocationalism'. Vocational education is education for work. The 'new vocationalism' of the 1980's sought to transform education so that it could more effectively meet the economy's requirements for labour. It challenged the established liberal and academic traditions of British education. ...

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