New labour education policies Flashcards
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Sure start
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- from 9 months onwards to 4 years old
- helps with basic skills and are built in w/c deprived areas
- can also teach parents training and helps kids adapt better when theyre in real school
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Meritocratic policies
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- policies that reduce social class achievement gap and make the education system fairer for w/c students
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Marketisation policies
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- still want to maintain these policies as they are still good for schools
- education reform act, new vocationalism, development of comprehensives
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Education Maintenance allowance (EMA)
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– meant for those who are 16 to 18
- helps with travel costs, resources and overcomes barriers for the w/c
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Education Action Zones (EAZs)
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- LEAs got given funding
- payed for breakfast clubs, homework clubs, extra teaching assistants, extra staff etc
- helped overcome the problems that material deprivation caused e.g lack of food, housing, lack of resources, space , quietness
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City acadamies
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- new schools in deprived areas
- where there were persistent sink schools they were shut and replaced with city academies
- helped raise achievement in high deprived areas
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Specialist schools (marketisation policy)
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- secondary schools that focus on one type of skill e.g acting/drama
- get extra funding for the resources in that specialism but still follow the national curriculum
- give a good USP as it means they can offer something else - allows people to choose what school they want to go to so they would get more help in the talent
HOWEVER - only benefits m/c students as you would need economic capital for things like travel
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University fees
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- introduced and grants were replaced with loans
- expanded marketisation into uni so students became consumers
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AIM higher
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- targeted w/c deprived areas
- so those who felt they couldn’t attend university knew that they now could potentially have a chance
- reduces self exclusion within pupils
