State Policies

Question 1

When did education become increasingly privatised?

Answer 1

• 1980s

Question 2

What did the education Act introduced?

Answer 2

• privatisation through marketisation and new labour

Question 3

How has privatisation been pursued?

Answer 3

• through academies

Question 4

What is privatisation?

Answer 4

• where services which were owned by the state and are transferred to private companies.

Question 5

Why do we need private schools?

Answer 5

• society would not be able to function if every child went to a public school the schools would not be able to run as they would be overwhelmed

Question 6

What is Marketisation?

Answer 6

• the act of introducing business ideas into education, making school standards improve and school compete with other schools

Question 7

What was the aim of the education act?

Answer 7

• to increase standards in school
• ensure competition existed in schools
• to make schools run like businesses