Policy Flashcards
The Butler act of 1944 did what?
Started the transition from the tripartite system to the comprehensive school system.
Eg: 1965
The education reform act of 19__…
1988, introduced a marketised education system, by reducing funding from government and changing the funding formular.
What is silt shifting
Sidelining those you think won’t fulfill any potential
Cream skimming is what?
Taking only the ‘students’ you think will bolster the schools success rares the most
Gewitz has the theory of the myth of…
Meaning what?
What were the 3 types of choosers?
Parentocracy.
Meaning the actual improvement of the education system by treating parents like customers is greatly overstated and actually replicates inequality.
There’s 3 types of choosers.
- Privileged skilled choosers.
- Semi skilled choosers.
- Disconnected local choosers.
Gewitz has the theory of the myth of…
Meaning what?
What are the 3 types of chooser?
Parentocracy.
Meaning the actual improvement of the education system by treating parents like customers is greatly overstated and actually replicates inequality.
There’s 3 types of choosers.
- Privileged skilled choosers.
- Semi skilled choosers.
- Disconnected local choosers.
What is EMA
A more incompassing and generous form of a bursary.
Educational maintainence allowance is a budgetary decision by the about government to support disadvantaged people to re-enter or continue higher education.
Free schools is a policy by which government continued by which other government.
Started by New Labour.
Continued by Conservatives (May’s One nation conservatives)
The conservatives abolished which key labour policies meant to slim economic divide in education?
- The EMA
- Sure start centres, meant to fund assisting people with their education by giving meaningful tailored councilling to their complex circumstances.
The vast majority of Sure start centres were closed down because of austerity.
Free school meals were given to all students in key stage 1 by which governement?
The conservatives
The National foundation for education research in 2011 reported what.
12% of students on EMA said they wouldn’t have made the choice to go into education without that support.
Ball criticises the marketisation of education.
How?
Ball proposes that the education system becomes,
- Fragmented
- centralised
Opportunities gradually become more exclusive.
EMA did what?
Incentivised the poorest to go into higher education rather than working early to support their family.
It did this by giving them a weekly allowance if they met a household earning threshold.
What’s an issue with the educational maintainance allowance?
Very expensive policy, from a New Right perspective.
What’s a strength of educational maintenance allowance?
. It was reported in 2013 that 12% of those on the EMA declared they would have absolutely not gone into higher education without it.
. Between 2009 - 2010,
32% of those in universities were there because of the scheme.
1/5 of secondary schools in the U.K were re-
Refurbished
In New Labour’s 13 years in office.
In 2013,
The EMA….
Had reportedly put 12% of university students in university, who claimed they would otherwise have not have gone.
Ball criticises marketisation for what?
Fragmenting and centralising opportunities away from the attempts to standardise it in the 20th century
