5.0 Educational Policy Summary

Question 1

Educational Policy

Answer 1

1. Educational policy before 1988.
2. Marketisation.
3. New Labour
4. Coalition
5. The Privatisation of Education

Question 2

Educational policy before 1988

Answer 2

1. Tripartite System

2. Comprehensive System

Question 3

Marketisation

Answer 3

1. Policies to promote marketisation
2. Parentocracy
3. Reproduction of inequality
4. League tables and cream-skimming
5. Funding Formula
6. Gerwitz
7. The Myth of Parentocracy

Question 4

New Labour

Answer 4

1. Education Action Zones.
2. The Aim Higher programme.
3. EMAs
4. National Literacy Strategy
5. City Academies
6. Increased funding for state education
7. Criticisms

Question 5

Coalition

Answer 5

1. Academies
2. Free Schools
3. Fragmented Centralisation
4. Coalition Policies

Question 6

Privatisation of Education

Answer 6

1. Blurring the public/private boundary
2. Privatisation and the globalisation of education policy
3. Cola-isation of schools.
4. Education as a commodity
5. Policies on gender and ethnicity