Policies to improve equality of opportunity

Question 1

Tripartite System

Answer 1

1944 education act
-introduced three types of School
-Grammar - for kids who passed the 11+, traditional topics taught, 20% of kids got in
-secondary modern- 75-80% of pupils, failed 11+ offered basic education
-technical- vocational education,

Question 2

Comprehensive schools

Answer 2

1965 Labour government made schools comprehensive- everyone was meant to get the same deal. Removed 11+ but still had setting and streaming

Question 3

Education action zones

Answer 3

1998, way of tackling educational inequality by area. Local private and voluntary organisations worked together and combined their recourses to try to raise standards

Question 4

Sure Start

Answer 4

1999, improve early education and childcare in England and offered up to two years of free childcare and early education to all three and four year olds.

Question 5

Education Maintenance Allowance

Answer 5

Gave up to £30 a week to students who stayed on in education post-16. A series of bonuses were avaliable for good attendance and progress. EMA was means tested so only children from poorer families could benefit from it.

Question 6

City Centre Academies

Question 7

Aim High & Aiming Higher

Answer 7

New labour government funded project that covered initiatives related to widening participation in higher education in the UK amongst students with good grades and no family history of university study, particularly among students from non-traditional backgrounds, minority groups and disabled persons

Question 8

Pupil Premium

Answer 8

Provided extra funding for schools with students on free school meals. The funding was meant to be spent on improving the educational experiance of these pupils

Question 9

Social Mobility Strategy

Answer 9

focused on the opening up of opportunities to people from disadvantaged backgrounds, creating greater meritocracy

Question 10

GIST/ WISE

Answer 10

Girls into science and technology, women into science and engineering

Question 11

Multiculturalism

Answer 11

having classes which specifically educated students about the languages, religions and diets of different minority ethnic groups. Changing text books so that they had broader representation of ethnic minorities

Question 12

Progress 8

Answer 12

Progress 8 was introduced as a measure of schools performance in 2016 which measured the average progress a school’s students make compared to the national average of students with the same prior achievement across eight approved subjects