Eval equality of opportunity

Question 1

Wragg

Answer 1

Wragg - education system as ‘victorian railway carriage’ route is predetermined based on your social class:
1st class = Eton, Oxford, Cambridge
2nd class = outstanding schools into Russell group uni
3rd class = poor performance school, further education college + polytechnic uni
Education system form of social closure, excludes people from poorer backgrounds - 1% from these backgrounds granted scholarships

Question 2

Gerwitz

Answer 2

illustrates due to marketisation of education, higher standards of even state funded education will always be reserved for the richest in society + equality of opportunity policies will not fix that

Question 3

Bourdieu

Answer 3

HC benefits mc
doesn’t matter if efforts made to provide equality of opportunity without total reform, w/c children lack cultural capital to take advantage of opportunities by new policies placed

Question 4

Murray

Answer 4

education lost sense of meritocracy + is failing those who are most gifted ,
Education asks too much from those at bottom, too little from those at the top - too many people in uni devalues high education degrees which causes society to depend how well academically gifted
Suggest to prioritise best standard of education for those likely to get more out of it
Accept not everyone has potential to be anything they want to be