Analysis Of The British New Labour Government's Education Policy

Blair's educational policy is aimed at fitting the development of knowledge economy. Under the leadership of the idea, the New Labor Government makes a basket of reforms which touch the economic style, welfare system and educational policy. The New Labor Government always pays attention to the education which has an important role in the country's future development. The thesis analyzes the UK's educational reform and future direction through the reaction relationship between politics and education. In the field of middle education, the government continues to put money to it, moreover, the Labor Government makes use of the market methods to increase the development of the middle education. Besides it, the government attaches the importance to the equality of the education to raise the students with full-sided development for the higher education. In the field of the higher education, the Labor Government tries best to enjoy the higher education, and changes some methods to fit the times. Also the government welcomes the social forces to take part in the construction of the higher education to draw the blue print of the future education in UK. In the field of occupational education, the New Labor Government pays more attention to the development of the labors in order to meet the rapid development of the international competition. In doing so the training the employees, stressing the equality and furthering the skills could be used in the vocational education Since 1997 the Labour has taken the office twice; furthered the economy function brought by the education and boosted the UK's development. China also gets the useful something after studying the UK's higher education.The thesis could be divided into the four parts:The first section of the thesis is to analyze the background of the New Labor's reform. It stresses the international background, the home background and the technological causes which are the main reasons to reform the UK's education. In the whole, this section inspects the affection taken by the home politics. Through this section, we could understand the history of the UK's education and its future development.The second section of the thesis is about the New Labor Government's educational policy. The section is the main point of this thesis also. When a party's policy becomes a government's policy, the party could implement these policy mentioned above. After studying the New Labor Government's educational policies, the thesis will study the middle education, continued education, vocational education and higher education. In addition, the thesis also introduces the history of development of each education and the future reform respectively. Through the section, we could understand the policy and ideas of the New Labor Government and the point of the future reform in details.The third section of the thesis is the achievements of the New Labor Government's reform. After the implementation of these policies, the active role has been played in the middle education, higher education and vocational education. Especially in the vocational education, the common labors have access to boosting the technology, skills and increasing the living standards.The fourth section of the thesis is the meaning and enlightenment of the New Labor's government, also it points to the function which does a favor to China's development of the education. Also it could be a good reference to perfect the problems of China's education system at present.