Social Policy in Education
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- Created on: 30-05-17 16:51
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- Social Policy in Education
- Tripartite system (1944) -People took the 11+ -Those who passed when to grammar schools - The rest of kids when to Secondary modern or technical schools
- Abolished in 1965 because it was seen to be breeding inequality,replaced by the comprehensive system but there are still 264 grammar schools in England
- 1980s educational Reform act
- Introduced more marketisation into education with OFSTED,league tables and GCSEs
- New labour, focused on raising standards as well as creating equal opportunities
- Introduced EMA, having to pay for Uni and EAZs
- When schools are undersubscribed they have to take anyone, if they are oversubscribed they admit via the schools admissions code
- This gives priority to those in care, those in the catchment area and those with siblings in the school
- There is selection by ability, selection by faith and selection by aptitude
- Schools use covert selection to put off working class kids
- Con lib policies - Academies, Free schools, Progress 8, linear A levels, taking coursework out, pupil premium, E bacc
- Formula funding goes hand in hand with Marketisation
- An example of Privatisation is cola isation
- Privatisation has come about more since 2010
- Educational policy is meant to have equality of opportunity, access, outcome and participation
- Independent Schools- Very expensive, supposedly better education, small class sizes, guarantee of a better job
- Arguments for
- If parents have money, they should spend it how they want
- Smaller classes and personalized learning
- Better chance of getting into OXBRIDGE
- Arguments against
- It gives an unfair advantage
- Schools abuse charitable status
- quality isn't better
- Seen to be undermining meritocracy
- Arguments for
- Tripartite system (1944) -People took the 11+ -Those who passed when to grammar schools - The rest of kids when to Secondary modern or technical schools
- Gerwitz and Parental choice - Privileged skilled choosers, Disconnected local choosers, Semi-skilled choosers
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