Faith And Private Education

Question 1

What are faith organisations

Answer 1

Church was the earliest agency involved in education. Priest schools existed in the 7th and the 19th only source of education for poor. State sector emerged church schools were incorporated and recently the number of faiths represented has grown.
Faith schooling emphasise higher academic results and supportive community ethos. Also culture and religion are preserved so home values are mirrored which reduces conflict helping minority to integrate.

Question 2

Evaluate views on faith organisations

Answer 2

• critics argue higher academic results are due to their selective nature. Also they can segregate children which can impact the social makeup of the surrounding areas. Which may undermine communities and create tension.
• argue there is no place for religion in school as children should be exposed to a variety of beliefs and allowed form their own opinion. Critical when religious agendas are perceived to distort curriculum.
• Reg Vardy face criticism because creationism and intelligent designs are taught in science as alternatives to scientific theory.
• 40% of the academies proposed in the early phases were sponsored by faith charities or evangelical individuals. This generated controversies over religious agendas being pushed through the government’s flagships schools

Question 3

What are private schools?

Answer 3

Independent schools evolved in 13th including elite public schools. Fee charging sector has grown and now 1280 schools education 7% of children.

Assisted Places Scheme was created and Labour experimented with policies. It also threatened to remove the charitable status of schools which could not demonstrate benefits to local communities.

Question 4

Evaluate woes on private organisations

Answer 4

• some argue free from red tape and political agendas PS can deliver efficient quality education. Also contended parents right to pay for a better education. Struggle is that not everyone can access it but there’s scholarships.
• whilst private schools exist, meritocracy is impossible. Theres evidence to suggest that buying private schooling sets children on a privileged life path.
• smaller class size and better resources available in the private sector. However, the social networks created in such institutions are equally important, leaving pupils with the ‘insider’ contacts to obtain elite jobs and influential positions.

Question 5

What’s the link with PS and job

Answer 5

Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission Study (2014)
produced a detailed analysis of the backgrounds of more than 4,000 business, political, media and public sector leaders and concluded that the UK is deeply elitist.
It highlighted the link between public schools and elite positions in society, reporting that elites, educated at independent schools and Oxbridge, still dominate top roles - therefore these key institutions do not represent the public they serve.
•Whilst the sector educates just 7% of children, their pupils account for a disproportionate number of people in powerful elite positions.

71% of senior judges
62% of senior armed forces officers