Political Developments: Comprehensive Schools and the Robbins Report Flashcards
What is a comprehensive school?
A school for children aged 11-16 that does not select pupils on academic achievement?
What was the one thing affecting membership in to comprehensive schools?
Catchment area (How close you lived to these schools determines which one you’re put in)
Argument for Comprehensive Schools in terms of 11-plus test
The test was unreliable and stressful. It was also pro middle class
What was a negative impact on children who failed the 11-plus test?
They were labelled failures at 11 years old
What was bad about comprehensive school locations?
In deprived areas there would be no choice of school
What was a benefit of grammar schools for working class children?
It gave the intelligent ones they needed to succeed in life
What could rich parents do which would make catchment areas pointless?
Move to more affluent areas to get their children in to better schools
What evidence was there that Tory’s acted on education reform?
Kidbrooke School in South London built in 1954Rising Hill school in Islington in 1960
When was the Robbins report created?
1963
How would the Robbins report help scientific education?
It put an emphasis on it
What and how many colleges would become universities?
12 existing colleges of advanced technology would become universities
How would existing universities be impacted by the Robbins Report?
They would be extended
