1988 ERA- Thatcher Flashcards
(11 cards)
Marketisation
-Schools compete with eachother for Gov funding.
- Turns schools into businesses to provide parents and pupils with what they want
- schools doing well will thrive and those doing poorly will either close or be taken over by new ‘management’
Parentocracy
- For marketisation parents must have a choice
- A parents choice will directly effect the budget.
- Extra pupils = Extra money
Efficiency in schools
- should automatically happen through making schools more competitive
- Therefore wil reduce education budget
National curriculum
- All students taught the same thing from ages 7-16
- only at core subjects , maths, English, science etc at GCSE level
Open enrolment
- parents allowed to select 3 schools for child to attend
- only specify one as top choice
- Allows parent to ‘shop around’
National testing
Introduction of SAT’s and GCSE’s
OFSTED
-Agency that inspects and grades state schools
- Gov organisation
- Reports are published and schools that achieve consistently bad reports are closed down
League tables
- So parents can make informed choices of where to send children based off of performance data
Formula funding
Funding for schools based off of how many students attend
Sharon Gerwitz - 3 types of parents
- Privileged skilled chooser- MC parents that use cultural and economic capital to gain educational capital for children, full advantage of the choices open to them.
- Semi- skilled chooser - WC but ambitious for child but lacks cultural capital to choose school so goes off others opinions of schools
- Disconnected local chooser- WC, restricted by lack of capital, found difficult to understand admission process so looked at safety and facilities
Ball- cream skimming
-MC schools want MC students who will get better results.
- Schools see MC pupils as easy to teach.
- Will maintain schools position in league tables and education market
