Equality policies

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  • Equality Policies
    • Three Key aims of education policies
      • Economic efficiency
      • Raising educational standards
      • Creating equality of educational opportunity
    • Four key aspects of educational equality
      • Equality of participation
        • Everyone is on equal footing in school processes that make up everyday school life
      • Equality of outcome
      • Equality of circumstances
        • Children should all be of similar socio-economic status when they start school
      • Equality of access
        • Every child should have the same rights and opportunities
    • Policy
      • 1944 education act
        • Tripartite system (Grammar, secondary secondary modern and technical) and 11+
        • Students were placed into schools with people of similar abilities and given equal opportunities
        • Designed to suit the middle class and those who failed the 11+ were labelled as failures
      • 1965 labour government, Comprehensive schools
        • Both high and low ability students performed better
        • There are still streams/sets and schools in working class areas got worse GCSEs
      • 1976 labour, Vocational education (Youth training programmes, NVQ)
        • Allows everyone to have an equal chance to be well trained for the workforce
        • Not regarded as highly by universities and employers
      • 1988 education reform act
        • More vocations and work places, OFSTED, national curriculum, league tables, SATs and GCSEs
        • Help improve standards and widen choice within the education system
        • Testing can encourage labelling

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