Topic 6 Education policy and Inequality

why was the Forster Education Act 1870 created

due to industrialisation there was a need for a educated workforce

Education Act 1870 what was it

no state funding, run by churches, mainly available for MC

Butler Education Act 1944

introduction of tripartite system

Comprehensive school system 1965

tried to abolish all 11+ exams and grammer schools, LEAs in every borough wanted to go comprehensive

Ford

found little social mixing between working class and middle class because of streaming in comprehensive schools

David

‘parentocracy’ meaning rule by parents 

Barlett

Cream skimming and Silt shifting

1988 education reform act policies

• league tables

• Ofsted reports

• Business sponsorship of schools

• setting up free schools

what are free schools

funded by parents, local communities, trusts they also have more freedom

Gewirtz

Privileged skilled choosers

Disconnected local choosers

Semi skilled choosers

Ball

myth of parentocracy → MC have more choice

new labour policies 1997 to 2010

• specialist schools

• city academies

• sure start

• educational maintenance allowance

conservative policy

pupil premium → money that schools receive for each pupil from a disadvantaged background 

Ball

promoting academies/free schools has led to fragmentation and centralisation of control

what’s the the austerity programme

 spending on many areas of education has been cut due to country’s budget deficit

what’s privatisation

transfer of public assets such as schools to private companies 

Molnar

schools are targeted by private companies as they are a product endorsement

Ball- Cadbury

Cadbury's sport equipment promotion was scrapped after it revealed that people would have to eat 5,440 chocolate bars to qualify for a set of volleyball posts

Hall

sees academies as handing over public services to private capitalist such as educational business

policies helping with gender/ethnicity

• Assimilation policies in the 1960s/1970s

• Multicultural education policies

• Social inclusion

Giddens

globalisation is the interconnectedness of societies

Kelly

globalisation allows us to compete with international students

Ball- globalisation

• globalisation has turned education into a market 

• UK universities now compete for international students and British students study abroad

Holborn

due to globalisation there’s more multicultural education → schools teach diff religions/beliefs