Education

Question 1

introduction for criteria to assess the most significant reform in education

Answer 1

significance in the context of education reform is taken to mean widening access, bosting meritocracy and helping collapse the rigid class structure dating back to pre 20th-century Britain. the 1944 education act represented the first steps to making education accessible due to talent, not social class and saw actions be put in place in contrast to ideas in the 1920s. that said the comprehensivisation of schools- acting on Crowther and Newsom recommendations- in the 1960s was of far greater significance

Question 2

comprehensivisation of schools:

Answer 2

finally, it was in fact the comprehensivisation of schools that represented the most significant of all reforms. beginning in the 1960s and continuing across labour and conservative governments more schools became increasingly universal and prevented children from being stigmatised at the age of 11

Question 3

explain the significance of comprehensivisation

Answer 3

the significance of this was that it prevented children from being stigmatised at the age of 11 which arguably represented a cultural change as European schools had long before removed selection processes. the impact of this was that access was indeed widened and continued to widen further.

Question 4

evidence to support that comprehensives continued widening access to education

Answer 4

this could best be illustrated by the fact that the number of comprehensive schools had doubled from 30% in 1970 to 62% four years later and by 1979 comprehensive schools were the main form of education in britain

Question 5

how does the impact of comprehensivisation outweigh the impact of the butler act

Answer 5

therefore, whilst the butler act facilitated the increase in working-class access to education, comprehensives amplified the access to quality education with a genuinely mixed intake.

Question 6

criticisms of the tripartite system

Answer 6

nonetheless th etripartite system can be criticised as it failed to establish parity of esteem and still reionforced class inequalities as it was ,mainly middle class students that attended grammar schools.