Summary: Educational Policy

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  • What did the 1944 Education Act introduce?

    The tripartite system, which included grammar, technical and secondary moderns to give children an equal chance to develop individual ability through a separate type of schooling geared to the child's ability. The 11+ determined which school they went to.
  • Did the 1944 Education Act promote equality or inequality?

    Inequality, because it separated children according to class, not ability.
  • When was Comprehensivisation and what did it do?

    Introduced in the 1960s and based on social democrative ideas that everyone should have an equal chance to succeed. The 11+ was abolished and comprehensive schools introduced.
  • Did Comprehensivisation create equality or inequality?

    Externally it created inequality, but within schools banding (Ball) and streaming (Keddie) take place, so inequality exists.
  • What did the 1988 Education Reform Act introduce and who introduced it?

    Introduced by the Conservative government and brought in a national curriculum, SATs, city technical colleges, reduced LEA control and introduced marketisation.
  • Did the 1988 Reform Act promote equality or inequality? Why?

    Promoted inequality due to marketisation benefiting the middle class because they are skilled choosers (Gerwitz).
  • Which policies introduced by New Labour in 1997 promoted equality?

    • Education Action Zones 
    • Aim Higher
    • Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA)
    • Sure Start
  • Which policies introduced by New Labour in 1997 promoted inequality?

    • Tuition fees for universities
    • Introduced specialist schools
    • Labour's anti-inequality policies are merely cosmetic (Whitty).
  • What policies were introduced by the 2010 Coalition government?

    Academies and free schools, with more emphasis placed on faith schools (Tony Blair was very religious)
  • What happens with the privatisation of education?

    • Education becomes a source of profit for capitalists (Ball).
    • The blurring of public/private boundaries.
    • The cola-lisation of schools.
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