Policies

Question 1

What policy was introduces in 1944 and what was it?

Answer 1

Butler act
11+ exams
Done to increase staying age in school
Tripartite system: grammar,secondary modern,technical school
Higher pass rate for girls
20% went grammar 80% went secondary modern

Question 2

What were the aims of the butler act?

Answer 2

Abolish inequalities in state education
Beveridge reprort 5 evils
Post war welfare state

Question 3

What act was introduced in 1965?

Answer 3

Comprehensives
Equality of opportunity one school type for all

Question 4

A03 of comprehensive act?

Answer 4

Poor standards
Streaming occurred along social class lines
Parents had little choice in education

Question 5

What was introduced in 1988? Thatcher

Answer 5

Education act
Free market principles introduced
Greater parental choice
Raising standards
New right and neoliberalism
Marketisation and parentocracy
League tables
Ofsted
National curriculum
Formula funding

Question 6

A03 for education act?

Answer 6

Competition didn’t increase standards
Selection by mortgage
Cream skimming-best schools selected best students
Middle class had more effective choice
Teaching to the test due to league tables

Question 7

What was introduced in 1997? Tony blair

Answer 7

New labour
Respond to increase competition due to globalisation
Raising standards
More focus on equality of opportunity
Increasing choice and diversity
Increase funding to education
Reduced class size
Literacy and numeracy hour
Academies
Sure start-free nursery places
EMA
Tuition fees
Specialist schools
City academies

Question 8

A03 for 1997 new labour?

Answer 8

Earlier academies rode standards in poor areas e.g mossbourne
Better at improving equality of opportunity
Sure start didn’t improve education but was popular
Tuition fees put working class kids off (Connor et al)

Question 9

What was introduced 2010?

Answer 9

Coalition government conservatives and Lib Dem David Cameron
Reduce public spending on education due to financial crisis
Scrapped EMA
Forced academisation- failing schools had to become academies
Free schools
Pupil premium

Question 10

A03 for 2010 coalition government?

Answer 10

Standards have carried on improving
Academisation and free schools are both ideological no evidence they improve standards
Free schools advantage the mc

Question 11

What was introduced 2015-2019?

Answer 11

Conservative government
Continue marketisation of education
Continue neoliberal agenda of keeping gov spending on education relatively low
Austerity and funding cut of average of 8% for schools
Continuing the rapid conversion of LEA schools to academies and introducing more free schools
Increasing number of grammar schools
Continuity of pupil premium.
Intro of t levels
Encouraging EBacc