Vers le controle pluriel de l’Ecole? La nature chageante du pouvoir dans le système educatif anglais On the road to a multiple school supervision system? The English example

This article analyses the main trends in educational policy in England over the past twenty years, probing the extent to which they promote central control or autonomy in the governance of schools. It is suggested that what may be emerging, within the context of multiple governance models that can be discerned in these trends, is a new, distinctive model – plural controlled schooling. This is characterised by constrained empowerment. The systemic limitations within the plural controlled schooling model – in the scope for innovation and in the composition of new players and partners in education – are briefly highlighted.