Policies

Question 1

What are the 6 educational policies?

Answer 1

1944 Butler Education Act
1965 Circular 10/65
1978 New Vocationalism
1988 Education Reform Act
1997 New Labour Policies
2010 Conservative

Question 2

What did the 1944 Butler Education Act do?

Answer 2

Introduced tripartite system
11+ test decided what school a child went to
Top 20% = Grammar school Academic
Next 20% = Technical school STEM
Next 60% = Secondary Modern Vocational

Question 3

What did the 1944 Butler Education Act reinforce?

Answer 3

Class divide
Grammar school for middle class
Led to labelling of children creating self-fulfilling prophecies

Question 4

What did the 1965 Circular 10/65 do?

Answer 4

Introduced the comprehensive system
Students regardless of their class would go to the local school and receive the same education

Question 5

What does Gerwitz believe?

Answer 5

Middle class parents are skilled choosers 
Use techniques to get children into the school of their choice eg: selection by mortgage moving to areas with good schools

Question 6

What did the 1978 New Vocationalism do?

Answer 6

Aimed to improve manufacturing
Introduced paid apprenticeships
Increased the value of higher education

Question 7

What was bad about the 1978 New Vocationalism?

Answer 7

Snobbery about vocational qualifications
Universities don't accept some 
Over representation of working class students on the qualifications

Question 8

What did Finn believe?

Answer 8

Criticised apprenticeships

Believed they were cheap labour

Question 9

What did the 1988 Education Reform Act do?

Answer 9

Introduced national curriculum, League tabels, GCSE’s, SAT’s and OFSTED
Introduced formula funding - schools were paid for the amount of students they took on each year

Question 10

What was the aim of formula funding?

Answer 10

Introduce marketisation into education

Increase standards by competition and parentocracy

Question 11

What did the 1997 New Labour Policies do?

Answer 11

Maintained marketisation
Introduced new type of schools - Academy's free from government control
Tried to reduce class inequality in education 
Introduced Educational action zones and EMA

Question 12

What did the 2010 Conservative do?

Answer 12

Abolished EMA and EAZ
Introduced £9000 tuition fees for university
Introduced EBAC to measure educational success
Reintroduced Grammar schools

Question 13

What does Youdell referrer to students who will not 5 A*-C GCSE’s?

Answer 13

Hopeless cases