Key Terms + Key Aims of Education Policy

Question 1

Open Enrolment

Answer 1

Parents are able to apply for a school place at any state funded school in any area. If the school is undersubscribed, they must accept the child

Question 2

Admissions Policies

Answer 2

Policies schools use to choose which pupils they admit

Question 3

Covert Selection

Answer 3

Using hidden selection to cherry pick students

Question 4

Neo-Liberalism

Answer 4

An economic approach that suggests that resources are managed more efficiently by private businesses

Question 4

Marketisation

Answer 4

Services, like education, operating like private businesses, subject to the market forces of supply and demand

Question 4

Privatisation

Answer 4

Services that were once owned and provided by the state are transferred to private companies

Question 5

Globalisation

Answer 5

The growing interconnectedness of societies across the world

Question 6

Endogenous Privatisation

Answer 6

Privatisation from within the education system- schools operating more like private businesses

Question 6

Moral Panic

Answer 6

A wave of public concern about some exaggerated or imagined threat, often stirred up by media

Question 7

Parentocracy

Answer 7

A child’s education is dependent on the wishes of the parent, rather than the ability and efforts of pupils

Question 8

Independent Schools

Answer 8

Fee-paying private sector education

Question 9

Public School

Answer 9

Very expensive private schools

Question 10

Key Aims of Educational Policy

Answer 10

Economic efficiency (Dolphin- string workplace based VE + training system- smoother transition)
Raising education standards
Creating equality of opportunity in a meritocratic society