New Labour (1997)
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- Created on: 01-09-18 23:12
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- New Labour (1997)
- Reduced class sizes to 30 max
- Split A-Levels
- Allow creation of faith schools, specialist status school and Sure Start
- Education Action Zones (EZA)
- Inner city areas which were targeted with additional funding which was spent creatively to improve educational achievement
- Alter curriculum to spend more time on literacy and numeracy so that all schools hit minimum standards of achievement
- Labour believes that deprivation is no excuse for failure
- Zones were encouraged to identify and meet the needs of the community, for example improving access to information technology and working with families
- Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA)
- A payment offered to 16-19 year olds to help them continue to further education
- Income assessed and did not affect household benefits
- Children aged 3 and 4 were given 15 hours of free nursery education per week
- Sure Start was created in disadvantaged areas to offer support and advice to parents of preschool children
- City Academies
- Set up to rejuvenate under performing schools in deprived areas and to raise educational standards
- Funded partly by the government and partly by private finance
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