State Policy And Education Flashcards
What did the 1944 Education Act introduce?
The Tripartite System and the 11+
What three types of schools were part of the tripartite system and what did they teach?
Grammar schools- Taught traditional subjects ready for uni.
Secondary Modern schools - offered basic education.
Technical schools - provided a vocational education.
Give two problems with the tripartite system.
The 11+ didn’t measure intelligence and was culturally biased.
Very few technical schools were built, so vocational subjects didn’t do very well.
Kids who failed the 11+ were labelled as failures, creating SFP
What did the labour government do in 1965?
Made schools comprehensive.
Give two positives of the comprehensive system.
No 11+, so 80% of the school population are no longer labelled as failures.
High ability students still do well and lower ability students do better as ‘universal’ education tried to promote equality of opportunity.
Give two criticisms of the comprehensive system.
Streams and sets are still used, so students still feel like failures.
Comprehensives in W/C areas have worseGCSE results than those in M/C areas.
In what year did the push for vocational education start?
1976
Give three vocational reforms.
Youth training schemes (YTS) - school leavers, 16-17.
NVQ’s and GNVQ’s - practical qualifications.
The New Deal - people on benefits had to attend courses if they didn’t accept work.
Give two problems with vocational education.
It aims to teach good work discipline, not skills.
Provides cheap labour and government encourages people into training schemes to lower unemployment statistics.
The 1988 Education Reform Act focused on what?
New right ideas:
- widening choice within the education system.
- encouraging competition to create a ‘market’ in schools.
Give two criticisms of the Education Reform Act.
M/C parents have an advantage in the education market since they have the knowledge and attitudes called cultural capital.
Constant testing can be stressful for students and encourage SFP.
