Educational policies

• Tripartite system 1944-

  • it segergated children going to differnt types of schools based off the 11+ exam
  • grammar schools-consisted of mainly middle class as they were able to pass the exam
  • secondary modern- 80% working class pupils ,consisted of a basic education
  • technical schools-vocational education but died out quickly as there wasn’t very many around .

  evaluation -

  • it reproduces class inequality as classes quickly became separated
  • reproduced gender inequality because girls had to get a higher score to get into the grammar schools
• comprehensives 1965-

  • abolished the 11+ exam and made everyone study the same subject

  evaluation -

  • banding setting and streaming still occurred which meant that the working class ended up in the lower bands
• education act 1988 conservatives -

  • it aimed to introduce more competition into education and a greater parental choice (parentocracy)
  • introduced league tables
  • ofsted
  • the national curriculum
  • formula funding-money for the number of pupils in the school ,this encourages schools to increase standards to increase demand
  • new vocationalism through training schemes
  • GIST and WISE
• evaulation of education act -

  • selection by mortgage -the house prices increased where the better schools were this ment the working class became priced out and were left to go the the worse schools
  • cream skimming-the best schools selected the better students ,predominately middle class
  • the middle class had more choice due to higher cultural capital
• new labour 1977-

  • aimed to reduce inequality by raising educational standards
  • education action zones-extra resources to deprived areas
  • aim higher programme-encourage post 16 education
  • education maintenance allowance -money to students who went to college or sixth form to help to encourage post 16 education
  • reduced class sizes o help try and reduce inequality
  • sure start
  • vocational GCSEs
  • introduced city academies
• new labour evaluation-

  • the early academies help to rise the standards in poor areas
  • sure start didn’t really improve education just health
  • tuition fees put the working class off going to university
• coalition government 2010-

  • pupil premium -extra funding for those students on FSM
  • free schools -set up by parents sand funded by the state
  • cut funding to education -scrapped the EMA
  • forced academisation -failing schools were mad to become academies
  • it was made compulsory to retake failed subjects (maths and English)
• Coalition government evaluation -

  • Ball- free schools and academies led to fragmentation which meant there was a greater inequality
  • Free schools only really advantage the middle class and duplicate resources