Social Policies Flashcards
1
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1944 Butler Act
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- Tripartite and 11 +
- grammar, secondary modern or vocational schools
2
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Issues with Butler Act
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- 11+ not necessarily measure of intelligence, more culturally biased, legitimises social class inequality
- few technical schools built and grammars seen as best despite ‘parity of esteem’
- those who failed 11+ seem as failures, could lead to negative SFP
- m/c could still send their kids to private school if they didn’t get into grammar
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1965 - labour’s comprehensive schools
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- reorganised schools for them to be equal
- no 11+ so in theory less negative SFPs
- high ability pupils still did well, low abilities performed better
4
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Issues with 1965 comprehensive schools
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- setting and streaming took place (link to SFPs)
- schools in m/c areas did better than in w/c areas
5
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1976 Labour’s vocational push
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- Youth Training Schemes (YTS) set up in 1983 for school leavers
- NVQs and GNVQs were practical qualifications
- New Deal in 1998 meant those on benefits had to attend courses if they didn’t accept work
6
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Issues with 1976 vocational push
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- aims to teach good work discipline as oppose to a good level of skills
- Marxists argue it creates cheap labour and for govt to lower unemployment stats
- vocational qualifications not as highly regarded by unis and employers
7
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1988 Conservative’s Education Reform Act
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- based on New Right ideas (widening choice, encouraging marketisation)
- education should link to economy (more vocational courses, more work placement schemes)
- better standards (national curriculum with focus on core skills, OFSTED, schools becoming grant maintained so they could use money to do what they wanted)
-system of choice and competition (parents could choose which school, league tables, schools worked like a business) - more tests and exams (SATs at 7,11,14 GCSEs at 16, results used to form league tables and monitor school standards)
