Educational Policy: 1945-1979 (1)

Question 1

What are the aims of social policy in education?

Answer 1

• Raising Standards.
• Marketisation of edu. + economic efficiency.
• Educational equality.

Question 2

Raising Standards: privatisation IN education:

Answer 2

• changing the internal process of the educational system to be more like a business.

Question 3

Raising Standards: privatisation OF education:

Answer 3

• opening aspects of education to private businesses.

Question 4

Raising Standards: quality control:

Answer 4

• ensuring all schools are providing the best possible edu. to the pupils.

Question 5

Marketisation:

Answer 5

• creating competition between schools + increasing choice for parents.

Question 6

Economic Efficiency:

Answer 6

• creating a work force that meets the needs of society by teaching essential skills.

Question 7

What factors does the equality of education include?

Answer 7

• access
• circumstance
• participation
• outcome

Question 8

What does access mean in equality of education?

Answer 8

• being able to attend a good school regardless of socio-economic background.

Question 9

What does circumstance mean in equality of education?

Answer 9

• pupils should all start school at a similar level regardless of socio-economic background.

Question 10

What does participation mean in equality of education?

Answer 10

• all pupils should have the chance to fully participate in all aspects of edu.

Question 11

What does outcome mean in equality of education?

Answer 11

• all pupils should have the same chances of academic achievement regardless of socio-economic background.

Question 12

When did State Education begin?

Answer 12

• in 1870.

Question 13

What was made compulsory in 1880?

Answer 13

• attendance } up to age 10.

Question 14

Fisher Education Act:

Answer 14

• 1918
• state became responsible for the secondary edu.
• attendance made it compulsory up to the age of 14.

Question 15

School leaving age 1947- 2015:

Answer 15

1947: 15 yrs
1972: 16 yrs
2013: 17 yrs
2015: 18 yrs.

Question 16

What was the 1944 education act?

Answer 16

• tripartite system.

Question 17

What is the tripartite system?

Answer 17

• 3 part secondary school programme.

Question 18

What are the three types of schools in the tripartite system?

Answer 18

• Grammar schools- for academic students.
• Secondary technical schools- for those who want to do technical subjects i.e. engineering.

-Secondary modern school- focusing on subjects that use manual labour i.e. woodwork, metalwork.

Question 19

Why was the tripartite system introduced?

Answer 19

• to provide separate but equal schools for students seen to have different abilities and aptitudes.
  -each school have a parity of esteem- equal status.

Question 20

What are the criticisms of the tripartite system?

Answer 20

• Social class inequality- 1944 edu. act was to ⬆ opportunities of W/C students.
• Grammar schools seen as the most prestigious secondary schools.
• Parity of esteem did not exist
• Meritocracy- waste of talent.
  } O-levels (sec. modern students) -> finish edu. at 15yrs.

Question 21

What was introduced in the 1960’s?

Answer 21

• comprehensive system.

Question 22

Who was the comprehensive system introduced by?

Answer 22

• labour gov.

Question 23

What did the Comprehensive system remove?

Answer 23

• 11+ exam
• tripartite system.

Question 24

What did the CS provide?

Answer 24

• a single form of state secondary edu. for all
• a comprehensive school } all backgrounds + abilities.