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This chapter analyses the right to education as enshrined in the International Bill of Rights and other human rights treaties adhered to by the United Kingdom. It then assesses how the UK, particularly England, has implemented the international norms.
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R.S. Peters, ‘Education and the Educated Man’, Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain, vol. 4, no.5, 1970, esp. at p.13.
J. Shklar, ‘Injustice, Injury, and Inequality: An Introduction’, in F. Lucash (ed,), Justice and Equality here and now (New York: Cornell University Press, 1986) 13 at p.21.
Most famously in the Coleman Report: Coleman, J.S. et al., Equality of Educational Opportunity (Washington DC: US Government, 1966), p.312.
See M. Warnock, ‘The concept of equality in Education’, Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 1, p.3, 1975
H.J. Eysenck, ‘Equality and Education: Fact and Fiction’, Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 1, 1975, p.51
A. R. Jensen, ‘The Price of Inequality’, Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 1, 1975, p.59
A. H. Halsey, ‘Sociology and the Equality Debate’, Oxford Review of Education, Vol.1, 1975, p.9; R.H. Ennis, ‘Equality of Educational Opportunity’, Educational Theory, Vol. 26, p.3; Education for All, The Swann Report, Cmnd. 9453 (London: HMSO, 1985), especially at pp.82 – 6.
Shue does not include it in his list of basic needs as its absence would not cause pain, although it would seem to fit his definition of a basic right. H. Shue, Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1982), pp. 19 – 20.
Timothy Renton, Times Educational Supplement, 21 April 1989, p.A3.
Goacher B., et al., Policy and provision for Special Educational Needs, (London: Cassell, 1988), p.165.
cf. J. Lonbay, ‘Rights in education under the European Convention on Human Rights’, MLR, Vol. 46, 1983, p.345.
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Lonbay, J. (1992). Implementing the Right to Education in England. In: Beddard, R., Hill, D.M. (eds) Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Southampton Studies in International Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21794-6_9
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