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• 1 Educational policy

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• What did the 1944 Education Act introduce?

  The tripartite system, which included grammar, technical and secondary moderns to give children an equal chance to develop individual ability through a separate type of schooling geared to the child's ability. The 11+ determined which school they went to.

• Did the 1944 Education Act promote equality or inequality?

  Inequality, because it separated children according to class, not ability.

• When was Comprehensivisation and what did it do?

  Introduced in the 1960s and based on social democrative ideas that everyone should have an equal chance to succeed. The 11+ was abolished and comprehensive schools introduced.

• Did Comprehensivisation create equality or inequality?

  Externally it created inequality, but within schools banding (Ball) and streaming (Keddie) take place, so inequality exists.

• What did the 1988 Education Reform Act introduce and who introduced it?

  Introduced by the Conservative government and brought in a national curriculum, SATs, city technical colleges, reduced LEA control and introduced marketisation.

• Did the 1988 Reform Act promote equality or inequality? Why?

  Promoted inequality due to marketisation benefiting the middle class because they are skilled choosers (Gerwitz).

• Which policies introduced by New Labour in 1997 promoted equality?

  • Education Action Zones 
  • Aim Higher
  • Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA)
  • Sure Start

• Which policies introduced by New Labour in 1997 promoted inequality?

  • Tuition fees for universities
  • Introduced specialist schools
  • Labour's anti-inequality policies are merely cosmetic (Whitty).

• What policies were introduced by the 2010 Coalition government?

  Academies and free schools, with more emphasis placed on faith schools (Tony Blair was very religious)

• What happens with the privatisation of education?

  • Education becomes a source of profit for capitalists (Ball).
  • The blurring of public/private boundaries.
  • The cola-lisation of schools.