Policies that promote marketisation Flashcards
What is Open Enrolment?
Students/parents can apply to a school without being restricted by specific geographic boundaries.
What is Formula Funding?
Governments using a funding formula to determine how much money should be allocated to each school. Since 1988 this formulas focused on funding per child.
What is Publication of Exam League Tables?
DFE publishes league tables every year to reflect the exam results of children.
What are OFSTED inspections and reports?
Visit schools regularly & produce reports on whether theyre meeting nationally agreed standards on quality of education.
What is the introduction of tuition fees for higher education?
1998 - students had to pay tuition fees, calculated through their parents salary.
What are Specialist Schools?
Specialise in various subjects, providing expertise. The aim was to increase the diversity among schools & increase choice.
What is Opting out of local authority control?
Independent co-sponsors funding the school and overseeing it instead of local authorities. Aimed to give public schools more autonomy to boost innovation and raise standards of school.
What do these marketisation policies mean that schools have to do?
Attract customers (parents) by competing with each other in the education market.
What’s Bartlett’s case study?
Cream skimming & silt shifting. A critic arguing marketisation produces social class inequalities.
What is cream skimming?
Schools accepting applications from middle class areas to get the higher achieving students
What is Silt Shifting?
Schools avoiding taking on lower achieving pupils to make their league table look better, can also ‘off-load’ challenging pupils.
