Education- Educational Policies

Question 1

1944 Education act?

Answer 1

tripartite system

Question 2

Circular 1065 (1965)?

Answer 2

comprehensivisation

Question 3

Education Reform act 1988?

Answer 3

Tories. marketisation, National Curriculum, OFSTED, league tables

Question 4

New Labour policies (1997-2010)?

Answer 4

Surestart, education action zones, EMA, academies

Question 5

2010-15 coalition?

Answer 5

academies, free schools, tuition fees, pupil premium

Question 6

2015-present Tories?

Answer 6

progress 8, global ranking, EBAC

Question 7

Ball, Bowe, Gerwitz?

Answer 7

marketisation is bad for SEND pupils

Question 8

Gerwitz et al?

Answer 8

privileged, semi-skilled, disconnected choosers

Question 9

Finn?

Answer 9

vocational education keeps labour cheap and distracts from high unemployment

Question 10

Gibson and Young?

Answer 10

marketisation encourages schools to perform ‘educational triage’

Question 11

Tomlinson?

Answer 11

marketisation reduces education to an economic function

Question 12

Trowler?

Answer 12

social policies cant compensate for social inequalities between students

Question 13

Wintour?

Answer 13

replacing EMA with bursary had lead to a reduction in lower income household students continuing with education post 16

Question 14

Paton?

Answer 14

Pupil premium money from gov. is used by headteachers to make up for other cuts under Tories

Question 15

Williams?

Answer 15

international education comparisons are not valuable as countries need a system that works for them

Question 16

Alan?

Answer 16

progress 8 disadvantages some schools, especially those with a high proportion of low income family students

Question 17

Wilshaw (former head of OFSTED)?

Answer 17

return of grammar schools is “tosh and nonsense”- it’ll just widen social inequality within education

Question 18

Sutton Trust?

Answer 18

in grammar schools, 2.7% receive free school meals as opposed to the 18% UK average