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1
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how many pupils is educations delivered to across the UK

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9 million pupils ages 5-18

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how many schools is educations delivered across

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24,000 schools

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what is the total budget for schools in 2023-2024

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£116 billion

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what are the three aims in education

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-cost efficency
-increasing educational standards
-metritocracy

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why are educational policies needed

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-standards are good and competitive
-prevent risk factors
-rise in unemployement

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what are the four types of equality within education

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  1. circumstances
    2.access
    3.participation
    4.outcome
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what did the education act of 1994 aim to do

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improving education, equal society, meritocratic, effective workforce

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what test would determine where 11 year olds would go to next

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11+

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what type of schools could they go to

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grammar
secondary modern
technical

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how many pupils would go to grammar schools

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top 20%

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how many pupils would go to the secondary modern schools

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bottom 80%

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why did technical schools die out quickly

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provided a vocational education

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what is the triparte system

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students are allocated to schools depending on their percieved ability through the 11+

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what are the critisms of the 11+

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-unreliable
-culturally biased
-wasn’t mertiocratic
-no parity of esteem

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according to the CSE how many students were wrongly allocated due to the 11+

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10%

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what is the parity of esteem

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the mental health of students and the pressures if they failed the 11+

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how many students failed the 11+

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3/4 of students

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what did the comprehensive system (1965) aim to do

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overcome class divisions and make edcation more mertitocratic

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how many grammar schools remained in 2012

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163 grammar schools

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what are the strengths of the comprehensive system

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-development of the labour force
-high standards of education
-meritocratic
-no enterance exam

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what are the critisms of the comprehensive system

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-able students are held back
-children may become lost and overlooked in the system
-cannot stretch the most able students to their potential
-covert selection
-setting and streaming

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what do functionalists say about the comprehensive system

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they have useful social and educational goals, that promotes social solidairty to encourage a value consensus

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what do marxists say about the comprehensive system

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it cannot overcome wider inequalities outside of education, due to middle class having more economic and cultural capital.

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what are the three key ways to consider admissions and selection

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1.selective schooling
2.admission policies
3.covert selection

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what are the agruments for selective schooling
it benefits 'high flyers' and they're not held back
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what are the arguments against selective schooling
less social diveristy
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what did swift (2011) find about selective schooling
it has no benefit to the working class and it actually benefits the middle class
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what criteria do over-subscribed school follow
-children in care -LACS -older siblings in the school -specified faith -catchment area living
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what did brooks 2007 say about covert selection
students are cherry picked because of high ability
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what did green et al 2014 say about covert selection
free schools cherry pick the brightest students
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since the 1980s what two issues has influenced educational policy
neo-liberalism globalisation
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What are the miracle cures in education
-National literacy/numeracy strategy (1999-2010) -slimming down of the curriculum (2010) - raising academy requirements of teachers -master teaching
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What are the strengths of the 1980+ polices
Shows economic efficiency Oates (2013) benchmarking standards
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Weaknesses of the 1980+ polices
Unethical to compare to other countries Problems beyond control of schools Kelly (2009) education is seen as an economic-work based activity Alexander (2012) comparing data could lead to pointless policies made
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What does neo-liberalism say about education
It needs to take an economic approach and schools need to be privatised and marketised
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What does the new right say about education
Not about equality Marketisation and privatisation of schools Failing schools should shut
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Strengths of the new rights view
Schools decide how to spend money
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what is endogenous privatisation
schools taking ideas and techniques from businesses outside the school
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what are some examples of endogenous privatisation
performance related pay league tables per-capita funding
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what is exogenous privatisation
privatisation from inside the school, schoos becoming like businesses
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what are some examples of exogenous privatisation
school services exam system management school inspection
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arguments for privatisation
businesses are highly experienced and cost efficient more parentocracy encouraging to raise educational standards
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agruments against privatisation
money is drained to go to private companies bad schools becoming worse covert selection paramount
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what are the main features of marketisation in education
indeoendence competition choice
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what are the aims of marketisation
raising school standards improve standards outperform competiton
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what are the potential problems with parentocracy
labeling of schools won't be able to tell the relaity of schools less places avaliable in popular schools
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what are the different types of schools
LEA maintained school faith schools academies free schools grammar independent
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what were the policies of the 1988 education act
league tables national curriculum formula funding open enrollment OFSTED
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what were the aims of the 1988 New right government
privatisation marketisation parentocracy
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what are the critisms of the 1988 education act
league tables distort teaching and learning SATS harm mental health Rich parents have more choice of schools Cultural capital of middle class polarisation experience of school is negative
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what are the main aims of the new labour gov in 1997-2010
raise educational standards create a skilled labour force greater quality of opportunity improving experience of education
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what were the 1997-2010 new labour education policies
curriculum reform academies sure start every child matters EMA's higher education expansion education action zones and excellence in cities
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other reforms under the new labour government
teaching of essential skills personal learning citizenship classes a levels specialist schools student loans instroduced
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advantages of the New labour educational polices
raised educational standards improved failing schools
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critisms of the New labour educational polices
attainent gap remained middle class remained favoured by polices did not consider deep social issues reinforced social inequalities
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polices of the 2010-2015 colaition efucation policy
forced academisation free schools increasing uni tuition fees curriculum reform
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what are the disadvantages of free schools under the coalition government
drain on other schools in the local area benefitted from the middle class more increased social class inequlities
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what are the advantages of the higher education polices under the coalition government
introduced burasary schemes for lower income households emphasis of the quality of student experience
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what are the disadvantages of higher educational polices under the coalition government
divide between traditional Russell group universities and Polytechnic uniersities
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what are the advantages of curriculum reform under the coalition government
pupil premium introduced imrproved parity of esteem learning ket skills and core subjects
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what are the disadvantages of curriculum reform under the coalition government
lack of parity of esteem narrowed curriculum and exams introduced
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2015-2019 conservative educational polices
austerity and funding cuts LEA conversion increase of grammar schools pupil premium Ebacc T levels 30h childcare free
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according to Gorand and siddiqui 2018, what are the main claims in support of grammar schools
pupils get better results poorer students do excpetionally well no harmful effects
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what are the critisms of the 30 hour free childcare according to the Sutton trust
80% of poorer households are unable to claim these free childcare hours due to the specific criteria needed
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advantages of the 2015-2019 conservative educational policy
t levels improve diveristy and choice for students
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disadvantages of the 2015-2019 conservative education policy
less meritocratic low parity of esteem
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policies of conservative government since 2020
lockdown shutting schools cancelling exams for 2 years catch-up policies increase in funding tutoring programme
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advantages of tory policies since 2020
teacher awarded grades saved two years of students
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disadvantages of tory polcies since 2020
enormous harm to pupils lower students missing out on learning rapid inflation leaving schools with just enough funds to get by polcies before 2020 were axed

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