Educational Policy Flashcards
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What is an educational policy?
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Educational policies are initiatives brought in by governments that have a significant impact on schools or other aspects of the education system.
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1944 Tripartite System
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- Selective education – students would receive a different education dependent on their ability. All students would sit the 11+ to determine their ability and sift them into the right type of school.
- Equality of opportunity – All students in England and Wales have a chance to sit the 11 + . Previous to 1944, the only pupils who could get a good, academic equation were those who could afford it.
- The top 20% went to grammar schools, received an academic education and got to sit exams.
- The bottom 80% went to secondary moderns. These provided a more basic education, and initially students didn’t sit any exams.
- There were also technical schools which provided a vocational education, but these died out fairly quickly.
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1965 Comprehensives
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- Equality of opportunity – one type of school for all pupils
- The Tripartite System was abolished and Comprehensive schools established.
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The 1988 Education Act
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- Aimed to introduce free market principles (more competition) into the education system to introduce greater parental choice and control over state education
- Marketisation and Parentocracy (schools compete for pupils parents are like consumers)
- League Tables – so parents can see how well schools are doing and make a choice.
- OFSTED – to regulate and inspect schools.
- National Curriculum – so that all schools are teaching the same basic subjects
