Tory Education Policy 2015 – 2019

• • Austerity and funding cuts of an average of 8% for schools
  • Continuing the rapid conversion of LEA schools to academies and introducing more free schools
  • Increasing the number of grammar schools and thus selective state education (subtly and largely by stealth)
  • Continuation of the Pupil Premium
  • Encouraging schools to shift to the EBacc.
  • Introduction of T Level Qualifications (16–19s)
• Evaluations - Tory Education Policies

  • We now have a fully blown education market in education meaning possible lack of democratic oversight from Local Education Authorities.
  • Grammar schools have increased but these only advantage the middle classes = more educational inequality. 
  • The Ebacc potentially narrows the curriculum
  • T Levels increase choice and diversity (one positive)
• Encouraging schools to shift to the EBacc.

  Due to globalisation schools are encouraged to focus on 'proper subjects' in order for students to be competitive internationally.