LT4 Educational Policy & Inequality - Compensatory Educational Policies Flashcards
What do compensatory education policies provide and where?
Extra resources and funding to schools and communities in deprived areas.
What are compensatory education policies aims?
Great equality of opportunity and outcome
Social Groups?
Social class and ethnicity
Policy examples are…
Operation Headstart 1960s
16–17 Bursary fund 2012
Aim higher programme 2000s
Operation head start using it and the quality and evidence of success?
1) provided preschool education to improve learning skills and instil achievement motivation
• short-term gains - OHS succeeded in raising IQs in the short term
Operation Headstart reasons and evidence for lack of success in reducing inequality?
1) OHS showed no long-term gains in intelligence
• Intervention came too late in child’s life - 3-4 years of age
16-19 Bursary fund means to reducing inequality and evidence of success?
• Student in the following categories – low income, care, disabled can apply for funds up to £1200 to support continuation in post 16 education and training
16-19 bursary fund reasons & evidence for lack of success in reducing inequality ?
1) not all students who are entitled to apply
2) The former EMA payment scheme to all students from low income families proved costly and ended in 2011 - bursary has more difficult entitlement criteria fewer students receive it
Compensatory educational policies target who and why?
Groups that underachieve because of cultural and/or material deprivation.
Aim higher programme means of reducing inequality & evidence of success ?
Raise aspirations of groups who are under represented in higher education. Offers free taster days etc
Aim higher programme reasons & evidence for lack of success in reducing inequality?
1) other government policies on higher education have served to dampen higher education aspirations amongst the WC
2) Ending of maintenance grants - Introduction of loans £9000 tuition fees deters WC from applying to University
