Education Key Words

Question 1

The comprehensive system (comprehensivisation)

Answer 1

Introduced to overcome the class divide of the tripartite system. They did this by replacing 11+ exams, grammar and secondary moderns with comprehensive schools that all pupils within the area could attend.

Question 2

Cream skinning

Answer 2

Good schools can be more selective, choose their own customers and recruit high achieving, mainly middle class pupils.

Question 3

Silt-shifting

Answer 3

Good schools can avoid taking less able pupils who are likely to get poor results and damage the schools league table position.

Question 4

Formula funding

Answer 4

Schools receive money according to the amount of students at the school.

Question 5

Privileged skilled choosers

Answer 5

Middle class parents who used their economic and cultural capital to gain educational capital for their children.

Question 6

Disconnected local choosers

Answer 6

Working class parents whose choices were restricted by their lack of economic and cultural capital.

Question 7

Semi skilled choosers

Answer 7

Working class parents similar to disconnected local choosers but were ambitious for their children.

Question 8

Myth of parentocracy

Answer 8

Appears as if all parents have the same freedom to choose which school to send their children to but in reality middle class parents are better able to take advantage of the choices available.

Question 9

Tripartite system

Answer 9

Children took exams at the age of 11 and depending on their result they were placed in one of three schools.