Haraschuk K. Structural Reforms in the System of General Modern Secondary Education of Great Britain

The main stages and aspects of reform studies of the system of secondary education in Great Britain on Soviet and Post-Soviet comparative and pedagogical grounds are studied in the thesis, the conceptual terminology of investigation is characterized. The stages of structural reforms in British secondary education system of the second half of the ХХ century - beginning of the ХХІ century are characterized. The tendencies of the development of structural reforms during the period under study were: expansion of the diversification of educational establishment types; centralizing-decentralizing tendencies at all levels of education management: at the institutional level - introduction of the independent school management; at the local level - partial privatization or the change of functions of a Local Education Authority (LEA); at the central level - integration of power functions in the sphere of social policy. The main factors of structural reforms in modern conditions are analyzed; the theoretical grounds of structural reforms caused by the factors of modification are highlighted. The peculiarities of functioning of new types of schools in modern British secondary education created in the process of structural reforming were revealed. The possibilities of creative usage of British experience of the system of reforming general secondary education in Ukraine especially the achievement of succession and continuity of the programmes of educational reforms over several political cycles, extending more diversified character of domestic system of secondary education and simultaneously providing equal educational possibilities and social equality in educational sphere. Developing innovative school network as a mechanism of multiplying of intellectual and social capital of the educational system, development and continual support of the positive discrimination programme of educational establishment in socially neglected areas of the countries, expansion of the system of specialist secondary schools, widening the spectrum of educational and social services provided by secondary educational establishments to the community have been traced.