Education: Policies and inequalities Flashcards
Education reform act
1988
Conservative
Moved away from comprehensive school system
Introduced Grant maintained and city technology colleges
Encouraged choice
Marketisation
Creating an education market so that schools compete to attract parents
Parentocracy
Miriam David
Idea that parents have the power to make choices in school as they are the consumers
Stephen Ball
Myth of parentocracy
Is designed to hide the reality that not all parents have the same freedom to select a school
Labour years in power
1997 - 2010
Labour’s policy
Education, education, education
What did Labour do?
Abolish the 11+ exam
Try meet every child’s needs in education
Aimed to reduce inequality
EMA
Education maintenance allowance
Encourages low income students to get better qualifications after GCSES
Melissa Benn
The new Labour tackled inequality whilst remaining committed to marketisation
The coalition government
2010
Conservatives and Lib dem
Aim of coalition government
Excellence, competition and innovation
Encouraged all school to become academies
By 2012…
Over half of all secondary schools has converted to academies
Pupil premium
Created to help educationally disadvantaged social groups
Ball
The coalition government led to greater inequality in opportunity whilst introducing policies that aimed to reduce it
