educational policies- new labour 1997- 2010 Flashcards
when did the new labour party gain power and till what year did they stay till?
1997-2010
who was the leader of the new labour party?
tony blair
what were the 2 aims of the new labour party ?
support the working class and promote diversity, competition and choice by mainting marketisation and celebrating differnces
what policies were introduced to promote diversity and choice?
academies,faith schools and specialist schools
what were academies? how did it create diversity and choice?and what were they able to opt out off?
schools sponsored by a bussiness, created diversity and choice because parents had more options in the education market, opt out of the national curriculum
what did acdemies improve?who were they not accountable to which can be seen as a weakness?
the outcome of working class pupils, but they were not accontable to the state
what were faith schools? and how did they increase diversity and choice?
schools that cater to a specific faith, increased diversity and choice because it allowed tailored education for as many students and faiths as possible
what could faith schools lead to which could go against social solidarity?
segregations which could lead to social tension
what are specialist schools?and how do they increase diversity and choice?
schools that teache students a particular skill,increase diversity and choice as it offers parents increase choice for schools creating diversity
what were policies introduced to reduce inequality?
education action zones,education maintenance allowance,aim higher programme, ROSOLA and compulsory numeracy and literacy
what are education action zones and how do they help reduce class inequality?
partnerships with local education authorities and local bussinesses would foucus on a cluster of schools and provide them with extra resources
AO3 strength and weaknessess of education action zones?but what did new labout still encourage with could cause inequalities, example?
it helped deprived schools gain extra resoureces which helps with class inequalities, maketisation like league tables or formula funding
what is eduaction maintenance allowance?
payments of up to £30 per week given to students of low income backgrounds who attended college to encourage them to go stay in education post 16
how did eduaction maintance allowance decrease inequalities?
gave an incentive to work hard and it reduced the gap of educational qualification between mc and wc
what did tuition fees do that contradicted didn’t help with the education maintance allowance?
discourage working class from going into higher education so once the eduation maintance allowance stopped at 16 most stop education from there
