1.8 Conservative government policies

• Who was in the 2010-2015 coalition government?

  Conservatives & Liberal Democrats (new right thinkers)
• What was caused by the Conservative influence?

  Academies/free schoolsReforms to the curriculumReforms to vocational educationTuition fees in higher educationCuts to education budget to reduce state spending
• What was caused by the Liberal Democrat influence?

  Compensating for disadvantage in schoolsCompensating for disadvantage in higher education
• What happened to academies?

  The academy status was opened up to all schools with an 'outstanding' gradingAcademies opened the opportunity to be run like a business
• Who can open free schools?

  Teachers, parents and religious groups could set up their own schools
• What ddi free schools have control over?

  Had control over their curriculum & ethos
• What are the criticisms of academies?

  When the coalition government allowed any school to become an academy, rather than disadvantaged schools which removed the focus on inequality
• What are the criticisms of free schools?

  Free schools take fewer disadvantaged children than other schools e.g. in a school in year 1, 12% of students are low income compared to 24% of the catchment area
• What are the consequences of academisation?

  Has led to greater fragmented centralisation
• Fragmentation


  Comprehensive system is being replaced by private providers that leads to greater inequalities
• Removal of Centralisation


  Removal of state intervention within schools
• What policies were implemented to reduce inequality?

  Free school meals for KS1Pupil Premium
• What were the problems with these policies to reduce inequality?

  OFSTED found that only 1 in 10 teachers said that PP funding changed how they supported PP studentsSpending in other areas of education has been cut e.g. 60% decrease for school buildingsUniversity fees tripled from 3,000-9,250