Diversity and choice policies

Question 1

New vocationalism 1980s

Answer 1

conservative (new right), youth training schemes for NEETs to teach skills.

Question 2

Education reform act 1988

Answer 2

conservative (new right), league tables, ofsted SATs.

Question 3

New deal 1998

Answer 3

labour (social democratic), gateway gives interview skills, volunteer work.

Question 4

specialist schools

Answer 4

Labour (social democratic), schools can specialise is arts, PE ect.

Question 5

Academisation and free schools

Answer 5

coalition (new right), grouping funding and work force, local sponsors encouraged to fund (tax breaks).

Question 6

Green (eval)

Answer 6

vocational training does not prepare kids for work. (craft skills)

Question 7

Cohen (eval)

Answer 7

Vocational training not intended to provide social mobility, stuck in low pay jobs.

Question 8

Gerwitz (eval)

Answer 8

only the richest in society get a choice (privileged school choosers and disconnected choosers)

Question 9

National education union (eval)

Answer 9

academies are not providing diversity but are a way of cutting costs.