The Coalition Government 2010

• main aims

  1. Same as the New Right
  2. To reduce public spending on education following the financial crisis
• Details of policy 


  • Cut funding to education (EMA scrapped)
  • Forced academisation - forced failing schools to turn into academies
  • Free schools - parents had more freedom to set up their own schools
  • Pupil Premium - schools received extra funding for SEN and free school meals
• Evaluation


  Standards have carried on improving
• Evaluation 


  Academisation and free schools are both ideological - no evidence that they improve schools more than LEA (Local Education Authorities) schools
• Evaluation


  Free schools advantage middle class pupils / duplicate resources