Tory Education Policies

• Main Aims

  1. Continue the marketisation of education
  2. Continue the Neoliberal agenda off keeping spending on education relatively low
• Details of policy

  1. Continue the rapid conversion of LEA schools to academies and introducing more free schools
  2. Increasing the number of grammar schools and thus selective state education
  3. Continuation of pupil premium
  4. Encouraging schools to switch to Ebacc
  5. Introduction of T Levels (16-19s)
• The EBacc is a set of subjects at GCSE that keeps young people’s options open for further study and future careers.

  The EBacc is:

  • English language and literature
  • maths
  • sciences
  • geography or history
  • a language
• Evaluations 


  Grammar schools have increased but these only benefit the middle class meaning there is more educational inequality
• Evaluation


  The EBacc potentially narrows the curriculum
• Evaluation

  T Levels increase choice and diversity