tripartites & comprehensives

• purpose of educational policies

  -equal opportunities

  -control of education

  -selection & choice (different types of school, schools able to select pupils, parents able to choose school)

  -marketisation & privatisation
• educational policy & industrial revolution

  -was no mass education system in UK

  -education available to minority > through fee paying schools or church & charities

  -industrialisation required educated workforce

  -state made schooling compulsory from ages 5-13
• Tripartite

  A) 11+ exams

  B) grammar

  C) technical

  D) secondary modern

  
• what's Tripartite system (1944)


  system based on selection
• the comprehensive system - 1965


  -aimed to overcome inequality of tripartite system

  -11+ exam abolished with grammar & secondary moderns

  -all replaced with 'comprehensive' schools

  -all pupils within area would attend