Policies Flashcards
Butler education act year
1934
Butler education act
Introduced tripartite system
Tripartite system
Grammar schools
Technical
Secondary Modern
Grammar
Considered intelligent people who passed the 11+ test
The first 20% would go here
Technical
People who are useful in labour who failed the 11+
The following 20% would go here
Secondary modern
People who failed the 11+ and don’t go to technical - they are put on vocational courses
What % of students go to secondary Modern
The following 60%
Criticisms of the butler education act
Reinforced class divides Lead to labels becoming self fulfilling prophecies
What was introduced in 1965
Circular ten
Circular ten
Introduction of comprehensivation
What is comprehensivation
Ensuring that all students receive the same education within the same type of school to reduce inequality of achievement
Who many grammar schools were left in 1965?
164
What was Gerwitz study
Middle class parents used techniques to put their kid in a good school
What occurred in 1978
New vocationalism
New vocationailsm
Improved the value of vocational education
Introduced paid apprenticeships
Consequence of new vocationalism
Snobbery about vocational qualifications and were declined from universities Over represented working class students
Education reform act year
1988
Education reform act
Introduced national curriculum League tables Sats Gcses Formula funding
What is formula funding
Schools get paid per student they receive
Youdell
Confident - A-B
Borderlines - C-D
Hopeless - unlikely to get 5A - C
New labour year
1977
New labour
Maintained marketisation
What did new labour try and do
Reduce class inequality
Conservatives year
2010
Conservatives
Introduced EBACK
Improve their standards for OFSTED
Reintroduced grammar schools
