Education: 1997- 2010 Labour gov and Marketisation of Education

Question 1

Labour Aims

Answer 1

Continue marketisation (rw) and decrease social inequality (lw)

Question 2

How did Labour further marketise education

Answer 2

Created different schools; specialist schools, City academies, faith schools to increase parentocracy

Question 3

Explain Specialist schools, Faith schools and city academies + crit

Answer 3

Specialist schools: Schools specialised in certain fields such as MFL, sciences or sport this increases parental choice.

Faith schools: Now non christian schools increasing parental choice

City Academies: Private investors can invest money in failing schools by putting in 2 mill investors gain power over curriculum this gives parents choice

C: Further silt shifting and cream skim- Bartlett
lack of integration and community cohesion
can lead to ethnocentric curriculum

Question 4

Labour edu policies (8)

Answer 4

• More schools
• Increase ofsted power
• Higher edu
• EMA
• Edu action zones
• Extended schools
• Curriculum 2000
• Value added league tables

Question 5

Increase ofsted power

Answer 5

aim to improve info about schools available to parents. Force schools to work harder and raise standards
Can put schools in special measures

C: teachers are professionals and should be trusted to do their work without being checked on.

Question 6

Higher education

Answer 6

• Grants were abolished
• Uni top up fees to increase com in uni
• Student loans
  Aim to marketise uni

C: fees put off wc to go to higher edu

Question 7

Compensatory Edu: EMA

Answer 7

means tested based on parents income which students get money to go to school

Aim to create social equallity and get more students in higher edu

C; scrapped

Question 8

Compensatory Edu: Edu action zones

Answer 8

Extra funding to schools in deprived areas encourage schools to send students to uni and aim higher

Question 9

Compensatory Edu: Extended schools

Answer 9

More funding to schools to do activities during holidays and help deprived students
Aims to compensate w/c and e/m for what they lack at home help them do better and social equality
C: got scrapped

Question 10

Curriculum 2000

Answer 10

AS and A2 exams modular exams can retake to gain best results and go uni allow greater life chances for wc students

C: uni fees put off students
Linear exams less pressure but more difficult

Question 11

Value added league tables

Answer 11

Shows progress

aim: Correct superficial info gained from league tables
C: ignored and not recognised