Role of education - Neoliberalism and New right

Question 1

The new right

Answer 1

Belief that the state cannot meet peoples needs and that people are best left to meet their own needs through the free market.
- Argue that the state education system takes a one size fits all approach.
- Local consumers - parents and pupils have no say.
- schools are a waste of money and get poor results.
- Lower standards of achievement for pupils meaning a less qualified workforce.
- Creating a ‘education market’ which is called marketisation as a solution. This brings competition between schools, increases diversity and increases schools needs to meet its consumers.

Question 2

Chubb and Moe: Consumer choice

Answer 2

State run education has failed because
- it has not created equal opportunities for disadvantaged groups.
- fails to produce students with skills.
- Private schools deliver high quality of education. Call for introduction of market system in state education - hands of consumers.
Allows them to meet their own needs and improve efficiency and quality.

Question 3

Two roles for the state

Answer 3

Remains 2 important roles for the state:
- State imposes a framework on schools, within which they have to compete.
- publishing Ofsted inspection reports and league tables of schools.
- state ensures that schools transmit a shared culture.