Policies to Achieve Greater Equality of Opportunity

Question 1

Comprehensive Schools

Answer 1

• Provide a school for all types of students, no matter what their background is.
• All children educated together.
• Improve social mobility, enabling children to improve their social standing.
• w/c children get the same opportunities to success as m/c children.
• Most schools go by this and don’t choose through ability.

Question 2

EMA (Education Maintenance Allowance)

Answer 2

• Encourage w/c students to study post-16.
• Students were given money if they stayed in education post-16.
• Overcomes material deprivation.
• This helped students to cover travel costs, dinner, stationary and books, encouraging equality of opportunity.

Question 3

Compensatory Education

Answer 3

• Helping all children to achieve, no matter their background.
• Refers to extra services and programmes to help children from disadvantaged backgrounds achieve in school.
• For example, free school dinners and breakfast clubs.

Question 4

Excellence in Cities

Answer 4

• Raise the aspirations of w/c students living in inner-cities.
• Another form of compensatory education targeting deprived inner-city areas.
• Gifted students were given learning mentors.
• Schools worked closely with local businesses and companies who would do talks, mentor students and run outreach programmes.

Question 5

Academies

Answer 5

• Tackle underperforming schools.
• Sponsored academies are made when a school is failing.
• Aim to encourage greater equality of opportunity, improving the education of w/c students.

Question 6

Pupil Premium

Answer 6

• Help disadvantaged children in school, replacing other forms of compensatory education.
• Schools receive extra money for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
• Use the money on educational school trips.
• Not only overcome material deprivation but also gain cultural capital.