1.5 Social policy and education

• What are the four disadvantages of the tripartite system?

  Limited number of technical colleges so more of a two school system, labelling those who didn't pass the 11+ as failures, manipulation of places meant girls needed to gett higher marks to get into grammar schools and largely benefited middle class students.
• What are the three advantages of the tripartite system?

  Created social mobility for many working class children with academic ability, promoted meritocracy by giving those with ability opportunities to succeed and governments have tried to re-introduce the system on several occasions and some areas still operate the system.
• What did grammar schools receive more of and what did this help?

  Money and funding - allowed better equipment and buildings.
• What were working class students in secondary moderns seen as and what did this cause?

  Failures - lack of motivation
• Who took up the majority of grammar school places?

  Middle class students
• What were some secondary modern students not allowed to do?

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

  20%
• What did the tripartite system not promote?

  Meritocracy
• What were many grammar schools?

  Single sex (male)
• 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
• How did grammar schools gain the best pupils?

  By cream skimming
• What were secondary modern schools?

  Non academic 'practical' curriculum. Access to manual work. Failed 11+, mainly working class.
• What were technical schools?

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

  Academic curriculum - access to non manual jobs and higher education. High academic ability and mainly middle class
• What was the tripartite system of education?

  Grammar schools, technical schools and secondary modern.
• What did the rich still have in the tripartite system?

  Public schools
• What was education like in 1944?

  Raised school leaving age to 15 and state schools could no longer charge any form of fees.
• What was education like in 1891?

  Most secondary schools became free
• What are three examples of a welfare state?

  NHS, council housing, income benefits
• What was needed in 1944?

  Social changes in the aftermath of ww2 to address the poverty and deprivation that had occurred in the UK
• Which act made it compulsory for children up to the age of 10 to attend school?

  The 1880 elementary act
• How many schools were created after the Forster education act?

  4000
• What did the Forster education act focus on creating?

  Creating elementary schools for 5-12 year olds.
• Why was the Forster education act introduced?


  To tackle the need for a literate and numerate workforce.
• What did parish churches teach?

  Religious instruction and learning to read
• What was the other education supplied in the industrial revolution other than private and public?

  Parish churches
• What were public schools in the industrial revolution?

  Fee paying schools
• What was private education in the industrial revolution?

  At home
• When did the first national education systems come into force?

  Towards the end of the industrial revolution
• What was the education act in 1870?

  The Forster education act
• What is the question that educational policies create about marketisation and privatisation?


  Should schools be like businesses?
• How do educational policies create equal opportunities.

  Strives to make education fairer and accessible for all. Stops us reproducing inequality for all.
• What four reasons are educational policies made?

  Equal opportunities, selection and choice, control of education and marketisation and privatisation
• What is an example of an educational policy?

  The 2010 academies act
• 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
• Other educational policies

  • Forster Education Act - 1870
  • Butler Act 1944 (free secondary education, tripartite system & welfare state)
  • Comprehensive education - 1965
  • Compensatory education - 1997