NEW RIGHT

• TRAINING THE WORKFORCE:

  • Education should be concerned with training the workforce not promoting equality

  —> Education should socialise young people into the collective values to ensure a stable and united community/society
• MARKETISATION OF EDUCATION:

  • CHUBB AND MOE - schools should be run like private businesses

  —> This form of marketisation produces a higher quality of education and educational standards, and a more skilled and qualified workforce

  • CHUBB AND MOE - found that private schools performed better than regular schools
• 1988 EDUCATION REFORM ACT:

  • introduced marketisation (competition) and giving parents a choice (parentocracy)
• NATIONAL CURRICULUM:

  • the government told state schools what to teach
• OFSTED:

  • Inspections of schools are posted online, where parents can see them
• TESTING:

  • was used to create League Tables, which allowed us to compare schools and measure changes