EDUCATIONAL POLICY AND INEQUALITY - FROM 2010

Question 1

What role did academies play?

Answer 1

All schools were encouraged to leave local authority control and become academies. By 2021, over 78% of all secondary schools had converted to academy status

Question 2

What role did Free schools play?

Question 3

What is fragmented centralisation?

Question 4

What are some policies to reduce inequality?

Question 5

What is the ‘cola-isation’ of schools?

Question 6

What is education as a commodity?

Question 7

What was the privatisation and globalisation of educational policy?

Question 8

What were some policies and ideas on gender?

Answer 8

More recently, girls are likely to achieve higher than boys in the 11+ to obtain a grammar school place. Since 1970s, policies such as GIST (Girls into Science and Technology) have been introducted to try reduce gender differences in subject choice.

Question 9

What were some policies and ideas on ethnicity?

Question 10

What is a summary of education policy?