Education

• Schools


  Prepare students for work with universal skills (communication, IT, numeracy, literacy)
• Schools


  • Agency of secondary socialisation (e.g. hidden curriculum)
  • Agency of informal social control (punishments like detention/exclusion, rewards like certificates/prizes)
  • Form of childcare so parents can go to work
  • Selecting people for work (selective role/role allocation)
• Marketisation - idea that education provides a service and is like a stall and try to sell their school to parents and children so they are able to pick what is best for them. Each student is worth around £6000 a year. Done through banner, feeder primary school, good OFSTED and league table and school website
• Attainment - another word for achievement
• Halo effect - linked to caucasian children who are middle/upper class. Teachers like them because their parents tend to value education, so they know these children are more likely to have high literacy/numeracy and are more likely to read around the subject and focus more in lessons. Teachers know that parents will pay attention to the school.
• Vertical segregation - women and men work in the same job but men make up most of the senior levels/ managerial roles and women are at the bottom of the hierarchy regardless of qualifications

  Example: majority of factory workers are women but most supervisors are men 

  (Though the majority of females are teachers, only 39% of them are headteachers - Guardian)
• Horizontal segregation - when one gender tends to dominate a certain industry 

  Example: men in construction, women in childcare
• According to Mirror, there is a 7 year reading gap between the rich and poor
• According to the guardian, you have to have a reading age of 14 in order to sit exams and pass GCSEs