education policies timeline

Question 1

what was the aim of the 1944 butler education act?

Answer 1

• To provide secondary education (extending the age of leave from 14)
• offering free education and allowing everyone a chance into grammar, secondary modern and technical schools by overturning the ‘11-plus’ exam.

Question 2

what was the aim of the 1964 comprehensive school act?

Answer 2

• A comprehensive school is a school for children of all abilities over the age of 11.
• do not select intake on the basis of academic achievement.
• They are also paid for by the state.

Question 3

what was the aim of the 1988 education reform act?

Answer 3

• The act raised the school leaving age to 15 and provided free secondary education for all pupils
• It also involved the creation of the national curriculum, GCSE’s, SAT tests, league tables
• issued headteachers with budgeting powers on funding for pupils.

Question 4

what was the aim of university tuition fees 1998?

Answer 4

• Tuition fees were introduced across the UK under the Labour government
• Students started at paying £1000 a year for education. It would depend on their parents yearly income to see if they were liable.
• Those with lower family income could be exempt.

Question 5

what was the aim of Sure Start 2000?

Answer 5

• establishment of centres that could provide parenting and health advice from pregnancy through to pre-school, as well as providing childcare and early years education.
• Purpose is to reduce inequalities in child development and school readiness.

Question 6

what was the aim of aim higher 2004?

Answer 6

• created to encourage working class students to aim to get into higher education.
  The scheme was made with a budget of £136 million for people to get their higher education without worrying about tuition fees

Question 7

what was the aim of the introduction of academies 2010?

Answer 7

• Allowed all publicly funded schools to become academies.
• The schools were free from local authority control and the national curriculum.

Question 8

what was the aim of the introduction of free schools 2010?

Answer 8

• To make it possible for parents, teachers, charities and businesses to set up their own schools.
• It was set up due to what local people were saying, and what they needed in order to improve education for children in their community.

Question 9

what was the aim of pupil premium 2011?

Answer 9

• To raise the attainment of disadvantaged young people.
• Involved giving schools extra funding based one the number of FSM (percentage of pupils) pupils they took in.