Education policies Flashcards
New Right had two key policy?
Parentocracy
Marketisation
What is Parentocracy?
Parent should have the right to choose which school they send their children to
What is Marketisation?
Schools should be made to compete for pupils and its treated more of a business the students and parents are the products
Evaluation of Marketisation policies and raising standards?
•Myth of parentocracy -Parents do not have equal freedom to choose the schools which their child attends due to Middle class parents have much more freedom in choice due to their cultural capital, higher education and income
•Educational Triage-Teachers tend to allocate more resources to the students who are on the C/D boarder line in order to achieve the 5 A* - C needed for the league tables thus ignoring those who are unlikely to achieve this.
•OFSTED is easily manipulated by government
What is Privatisation?
internal processes of a school to be more like a business, for example treating Parents and students as consumer
What is the aim of Labour Policies 1977-2010?
to reduce inequality by giving extra help to students who are from disadvantaged areas
What did Labour Policies introduced?
•Tuition fees for university-student loan
•Sure start 1999-support pre school children from deprived areas
•Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) 2004-Bursary
What is the aim of Conservative Policies?
•Reducing the role of state in education and moving toward comprehensive systems
What did the 1988 Education Act key policies introduced these policy raising standards?
•League tables
•OFSTED
•Open Enrolment-Parent can look a league tables and decide what schools to choose which aims
•Formula Funding-more Pupils schools attract the more money they get
•The National Curriculum-To make sure all schools taught same subject trying to reduce inequality
Strength of the 1988 Act?
- The Act laid the foundation for the education policy to the present day (2023)
- Educational Standards have improved since 1988
- Marketisation eventually allowed for failing schools to be taken over more easily
Criticisms of the 1988 Act?
•Problems with league table: teaching to the test and not teaching them content and can be stressful
•The system is more advantage for middle classes than working class because they have more choice because its by cultural capital
•Increasing inequlaity the school parents alliance,cream skimming and polarisation and sink schools
•Ball suggest increase parentocracy is a myth and education market only serve middle class
•Educational triage also criticised marketisation because of exclusion of students with low academic ability before test so it don’t affect league tables
What was the aim of Coalition government policies 2010-2015?
•Introduction of free school meal
•Tuition fee increased
•Pupil premium-Schools are given extra money for every pupil they attract
•New style academies-All state schools encouraged to become independent academies free from local authority
What is the aim of the 1944 Tripartite System?
students would receive a different education dependent on their ability. All students would sit a test (the 11+) to determine their ability and sift them into the right type of school.
What are the Gender Policy?
•GIST (Girls into Science and Technology)-designed and taught by women for girls to inspire more girls to explore carrers in the sciences
•WISE (Women into Science and Engineering)-Women study and build careers using
science,technology,engineering and maths.
Policy that help Ethnic minorities?
•Assimilation
•’Sure start’ and ‘Head start
