1.5 Social policy and education

• educational policy


  plans and strategies for education introduced by the government with instructions and recommendations that schools and local authorities are advised to take on
• What is an example of an educational policy?

  The 2010 academies act
• What four reasons are educational policies made?

  Equal opportunities, selection and choice, control of education and marketisation and privatisation
• How do educational policies create equal opportunities.


  Strives to make education fairer and accessible for all. Stops us reproducing inequality for all.
• How do educational policies affect the selection and choice in education?

  Why type of schools we should have, can schools choose pupils, can parents choose schools
• What do educational policies decide about who controls education?

  Decides who should have control of how schools are run and what they should teach
• What is the question that educational policies create about marketisation and privatisation?

  Should schools be like businesses?
• What year was the Forster education act?

  1870
• What was the education act in 1870?


  The Forster education act
• When did the first national education systems come into force?

  Towards the end of the industrial revolution
• What was private education in the industrial revolution?

  At home
• What were public schools in the industrial revolution?


  Fee paying schools
• What was the other education supplied in the industrial revolution other than private and public?


  Parish churches
• What did parish churches teach?

  Religious instruction and learning to read.
• Why was the Forster education act introduced?

  To tackle the need for a literate and numerate workforce.
• What did the Forster education act focus on creating?

  Creating elementary schools for 5-12 year olds.
• How many schools were created after the Forster education act?

  4000
• Which act made it compulsory for children up to the age of 10 to attend school?

  The 1880 elementary act
• What was the 1880 elementary act?


  It was compulsory for children up to the age of 10 to attend school
• What is a public school?

  Private school
• What is a state school?

  Run by the state
• What was needed in 1944?

  Social changes in the aftermath of ww2 to address the poverty and deprivation that had occurred in the UK?
• What is a welfare system?

  A system whereby the state undertakes to protect the health and well-being of its citizens, especially those in financial or social need, by means of grants, pensions and other benefits
• What are three examples of a welfare state?


  NHS, council housing, income benefits
• What was education like in 1880?

  Compulsary schooling to age 10. The type of education you received was based on social class background, many schools charged.
• What was education like in 1891?

  Most secondary schools became free
• What was education like in 1944?


  Raised school leaving age to 15 and state schools could no longer charge any form of fees.
• What did the rich still have in the tripartite system?

  Public schools
• What was the tripartite system of education?

  Grammar schools, technical schools and secondary modern.
• What were grammar schools?

  Academic curriculum - access to non manual jobs and higher education. High academic ability and mainly middle class.
• What were technical schools?

  Only in a few areas. Success at 11+ and had technical skill.
• What were secondary modern schools?

  Non academic 'practical' curriculum. Access to manual work. Failed 11+, mainly working class.
• How did grammar schools gain the best pupils?

  By cream skimming
• What two things did the tripartite system reproduce?

  Class inequality - two classes went to separate schools and had different opportunities.Gender inequality- girls had to get higher marks than boys to get a grammar school place
• What did the tripartite system legitimise?

  Inequality through suggesting that ability is innate and could be measured early on in life even though environment can play a huge part.
• What were many grammar schools?

  Single sex (male)
• What did the tripartite system not promote?

  Meritocracy
• How many pupils attended grammar schools during the tripartite system?


  20%
• What was set higher for girls in the 11+?

  The pass mark
• What were some secondary modern students not allowed to do?


  Sit exams