British Direct Funding Public Schools "policy-making Process

In recent years, the study on educational policy has become one of the focuses in the educational research academe. Comparative research is an important part of the study on educational policy. Although it's important, there's lacking of deeper analysis, especially the deeper analysis about the educational policy-making process, instead of the single description of one educational policy in the area of educational policy research in China. This paper takes the Grant-maintained School Policy (GMS Policy) in the UK from 1980's as the research object, analyzes the background and the process of the policy-making, summarizes the character of the educational policy-making in the UK, and provides some suggestions to the educational policy maker in China. The paper is divided into five parts:The first part is the introduction, in which the according of choosing this topic is discussed, following the research methods of the paper.The second part is the analysis of the background of the GMS Policy. At the beginning of the 1980's, the economic reform in the UK directed by the Comparative Party, the ideology and the culture opinion of the New Right made great affect to the appearance of the GMS Policy.The third part analyzes the develop journey of the GMS Policy and the process of making it from two axis: the vertical one is the develop journey of the policy, the horizontal one is the process of the policy-making, the content of the policy and the implementation of it in every scale.The forth part summarizes the educational policy-making model of the UK. Through the analysis of the case of GMS Policy, the conclusion is that the general educational policy-making model is the group model, for in the UK, the educational policy are often the result of the fight and compromise of different interest groups. But in the case of the GMS Policy, there's some characters of aristocracy model, for in this case, the New Right Comparative controled the process of the policy-making.The last part is about the inspiration and the suggestions. Because of the difference of t he political environments between the UK and China, the model of educational policy-making couldn't be copied from the UK to China. But the principles of the educational policy-making mechanism in the UK can be made good use of, and on the basis of which, some suggestion for the educational policy-maker are provided.