Social Policy Flashcards
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Criticisms of the Tripartite System
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- Labels kids unfairly
- No mobility once you were in
- Took different exams in secondary moderns
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Tripartite System (1945)
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- Stated it would provide each child with an education suited to its ‘age, aptitude & ability’
- Bought in:
> Grammar schools for the top 15%
> Technical schools for the technically able people
> 80% secondary moderns - Raised leaving age to 15:
> Encourages meritocracy
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The Comprehensive System
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By the end of 1978 at least 80% of the nation’s children were educated under some sort of comprehensive system
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Advantages of the Comprehensive System
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- Went to your catchment school
- Fairer on working class children
- Less socially divisive
- People aren’t labelled by one exam
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Disadvantages of the Comprehensive System
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- Still usually divided within schools
- Not truly comprehensive due to catchment area
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New Right: Vocational Education
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- Introduced to fit the needs of the economy
- NVQs: national vocational qualification
- Applied GCSEs: diplomas & BTECs
- Modern Apprenticeships: increased by Cameron’s government
- Work experience
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1988 Education Reform Act:
Open Enrolment
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- Parents can choose a school for their child
- David: parentocracy
- Chubb & Moe: parents should control education as state education serves society poorly
- Gerwitz: only benefitted the middle class as they can use cultural & material capital to gain best school places
- Bartlett: cream skim smart, easy to teach pupils (middle class) & silt shift lower ability, harder to teach pupils (working class)
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1988 Education Reform Act:
League Tables
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- David: parentocracy
- Gilbourn & Youdell: A to C Economy - schools ration time, effort & resources & concentrate them on students they know can get 5 C’s at GCSE
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1988 Education Reform Act:
OFSTED
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- David: parentocracy
- ‘Sink Schools’: badly performing schools lose middle class students & teachers
- Unequal Opportunities: in most deprived areas 68% of children were a year behind at 3, 3 years by 15
- Sutton Trust: socioeconomic position most important factor in children’s achievement
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1988 Education Reform Act
SATs
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- David: parentocracy
- Poorly marked: scrapped at year nine
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New Labour: Specialist Schools
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- More choice: offer a school that suits the skills & aptitudes of every child
- Cosmetic change
- Catchment still more important
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Coalition: Free Schools
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- More choice for parents in the area
- Chance for parents to set up their own schools
- Freedom to set up an admissions policy
- Don’t have to follow national curriculum
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Coalition: Academies
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- Give schools extra funding: should help financially & principals can use money effectively
- Apparently academies improving quicker than normal schools: but better now because good middle class schools to start with
- 2013 Academies Commission: found some schools are covertly selecting students
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Coalition: Pupil Premiums & Nursery Places
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- £900 given for every child on free school meals:
> Is it really new money - EMA money
> Will it reach the right children? - Increased nursery places for underprivileged 2 year olds
