Social Policy

Question 1

What was the 1944 Education Act?

Answer 1

Tripartite System
- Grammar schools
- Technical schools (vocational)
- Secondary Modern schools (practical, mostly w/c)

Question 2

What were the factors of Comprehensivisation?

Answer 2

• less grammar schools and the 11+
• equality of educational achievement (meritocracy)
• social integration
• by 1979, 80% of secondary pupils were attending comprehensives

Question 3

What was the 1988 Education Reform Act?

Answer 3

• national curriculum
• national system from testing and assessment (SATs)
• parental choice
• reduced role of LEAs (Local Education Authority)

Question 4

What are LEAs?

Answer 4

Local Education Authorities
- bodies that are responsible for education in a certain area

Question 5

New Labour (1997) policies that aided equality

Answer 5

• Aim Higher
• EMA payments
• increased funding for state education

Question 6

New Labour (1997) policies that created inequality

Answer 6

• introduction of tuition fees in higher education
• private school system

Question 7

Coalition Government policies (2010 onwards)

Answer 7

• Academies (schools given control over budget and curriculum)
• A level reforms to get rid of AS + A2 structure

Question 8

Coalition Government policies - privatisation (2010 onward)

Answer 8

• Uni fees tripled to £9,000 a year
• spending on education was cut
• lots of sure start centres closed
• EMA abolished

Question 9

What was the Neo-Liberal and the New Right view of educarion?

Answer 9

• some people are naturally more talented
• believe in meritocracy
• believe in shared values eg. competition

Question 10

What did Chubb and Moe talk about? (New Right)

Answer 10

Voucher System
- introduction of market system
- each family is given a voucher to buy education from a school of their choice
- marketisation of education

Question 11

Marketisation policies (1988 onward)

Answer 11

• published League Tables
• Ofsted inspection
• parental choice
• free schools
• open enrollment

Question 12

Evaluations of marketisation

Answer 12

• League Tables could lead to low achievers not being entered into exams to get into a better school
• myth of parentocracy (m/c have a larger cultural capital)
• concern over stressful effects on children because of testing so often