Social Policy (2)
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- Social Policy and Education
- Schools catered for each students ability
- Tripartite System
- More academic students could go to schools that would help them succeed.
- Aimed at abolishing class-based differences although it deepened the social divide.
- mainly ethnic minorities that ended up in secondary moderns as they suffered from deprivation.
- 75% of pupils who attended secondary moderns were seen as failures.
- 12% of students could get into grammar schools.
- Working-class talent was being wasted and the system was producing to few skilled workers.
- Tripartite System
- Grammar schools
- Up until 1965 you had to pay to attend a grammar school.
- Mainly catered for the middle and upper class.
- Comprehen-sive schools
- All students of backgrounds and abilities can be educated in a single school.
- By 1975, 90% of schools were comprehensive
- Catchment areas were put in place for admissions.
- Large class sizes dragged down the able students.
- New Right and education
- Competition meant pupils were being taught how to pass exams.
- They wanted National prosperity and believed competitive economy required competitive schools
- Successful schools would gather momentum to succeed more.
- Polices were to reduce social inequality/
- Marketisation meant some schools got less funding
- Aimed at combating youth un-employment
- Vocational education
- Increase young people's skills and make them ready for the world of work.
- Cohen - creating 'good' attitudes and work discipline rather providing skills.
- Finn - hidden political agenda to provide cheap labour.
- Buswell - structured to reproduce gender inequality
- Finn - hidden political agenda to provide cheap labour.
- Vocational education
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