Education

Question 1

Chitty 2004

Answer 1

The predominant approach of education today is assuming the purpose of education is private and economic

Question 2

Professor Scruton

Answer 2

Too many well educated teens and insufficient skilled jobs would cause a disharmonious society; conflicting aims of education

Question 3

Operation Trojan horse

Answer 3

Suggests more of a socialisation, political goals of education today

Question 4

4 purposes of education

Answer 4

Equity motivations
Political goals
Economic goals
Private benefits

Question 5

What are the political goals of education?

Answer 5

Education a social good not a commodity
Socialises people into existing norms and creates good citizens
Educated informed voters
Integration of immigrants

Question 6

What are the equity purposes of education ?

Answer 6

A means of social justice and inclusion, equal access to education, help solve poverty

Question 7

What are the economic goals of education?

Answer 7

Enables national economic competitiveness, formation of human capital, a highly trained workforce will skills across industries and enables science research

Question 8

What are the private benefits of education?

Answer 8

Preparation for life and skills and employment , improved earnings capacity, enhances wellbeing

Question 9

1980 education act

Answer 9

Beginning of quasimarket

enables parents to express a school preference

Question 10

1988 education act

Answer 10

cornerstoneof the quasimarket; separation of finance and provision
funding based on pupil numbers, and published league tables

national curriculum
grant maintained schools -opt out from la control to be funded by central govt, but the budget is up to school. 1 in 6 do.

national testing at 7,11,14 and results published

Question 11

1992 education act

Answer 11

provision for the inspection of all schools and reports published - ofsted

Question 12

1998 school standards and framework act

Answer 12

introduces school admissions code to restrict attempts at creamskimming in the quasimarket

abolishes grant maintained schools and gives la a bit more power, basically invented as trust schools

Question 13

2000 learning and skills act

Answer 13

introduces academies; state funded, independent in curriculum and teachers, backed up a sponsor which can be a company - mixed economy of welfare

Question 14

2006 education and inspections act

Answer 14

further admissions code, bans interviewing pupils
free transport for poor kids to go to 3 nearest schools
choice advisers

Question 15

2010 gove white paper

Answer 15

encouragement of collaboration - incentives for good schools to help bad, the opposite of full free market

Question 16

2010 academies act

Answer 16

all schools can become academies, and introduces free schools - 170 open

Question 17

2011 pupil premium

Answer 17

extra funding for schools that take fsm kids, attempts to stop creamskimming

Question 18

what is a quasimarket

Answer 18

when a public service is no longer provided by a single public provider, but by multiple providers including non-profit and private sector, who are made to compete with each other to attract users; increases user choice provider competition

Question 19

le grand 2003 on education quasimarkets

Answer 19

public sector workers are knaves not knights so we must transform users into queens

Question 20

lauder 1991

Answer 20

the public want choice; the move to quasimarket happened because people wanted choice for its own sake, rhetoric of politicians elected was choice

choice is class deterined, not ‘choice’. students only mix with their own social class so no social cohesion either.

Question 21

exley 2004

Answer 21

people only want choice as they’ve heard it’ll be better ; they’re less happy about actual measures

Question 22

le grand 2011 - do we have education quasi market?

Answer 22

no. would require a voucher scheme, and choice is not unrestricted as focus on collaboration and ways to limit cream skimming are aimed at reigning in the quasimarket

Question 23

bradley and taylor 2003

Answer 23

increasing choice and market mechanisms have had mildly positive effects on efficiency

Question 24

allen and burgess 2010

Answer 24

evidence for increased efficiency as a result of marketisation is weak and inconclusive based on sweden, us, uk, chile

Question 25

levacic 2004

Answer 25

education providers are not sensitive to actual competition but by perceived competition which i not a market structure function but cultural

Question 26

pisa 2013

Answer 26

oecd education study, shows uk lagging behind - though prais 03 disputes the data

Question 27

stecher and west on testing

Answer 27

stecher 2002 - narrows curriculum and teaches to the test | west 2009 - gives schools motivation to cream skim

Question 28

institute of education report 2010

Answer 28

under new labour there was a small but important reduction in the attainment gap between disadvantaged kids and their wealthier peers, new labour's focus on early years helped to close the gap where it is most crucial. alan milburn - unfair for rich to have choice and not poor

Question 29

higham 2004

Answer 29

demography of free school proposers is very middle class, showing how warped choice benefits

Question 30

bohlmark and lindahl 2007

Answer 30

vouchers scheme in sweden, most gains are made by kids from highly educated families

Question 31

francis and hutchings 2013

Answer 31

middle class are over-represented in the group who use lots of info to inform their education choice, and this shows the potential there is to help the working class benefit just as much

Question 32

le grand 2007

Answer 32

though equity objectives not yet fully met, a properly designed quasimarket can meet aims better than the alternatives

Question 33

Glennerster 1998 (purpose of ed)

Answer 33

Education is the most controversial aspect of the welfare state due to disagreement about ends as well as means