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Summary Educational policies
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Area of intended What they did What went well How it failedimprovement
Youth Training Scheme - YTS: This was a one-year scheme for unemployed school - (YTS)Scheme only offered second class training for
Getting students leavers to undertake training with an employer and trainees and cheap labour for employers.
‘work ready’ National Vocational receive vocational training in collages and training - (YTS)When in scheme, students were not classed as
Qualifications centres giving students more employable skills unemployed= makes statistics look better when
- NVQs: Offer more coherent set of qualifications relating they’re not.
General National Vocational to skills in the workplace. (Engineering/hairdressing). - NVQs and GNVQs aim to raise the status of vocational
Qualifications Unlike GCSEs, NVQs are assessed by demonstrating skills qualifications. However, there is still a vocational
under work place conditions. divide in education with vocational qualifications
- GNVQs: were introduced as qualifications that could be coming as second best.
studied at school/ collages rather than at the workplace Bowles & Gintis
so gave young age school children more options
Marketisation Open Enrolment - Parents could now pick the school for their children, - Bartlett: Formula funding based on open enrolment
rather than the old ‘catchment’ area from creates a cycle of either success or failure, this is called
comprehensivisisation. a self-fulfilling cycle.
- Formula Funding: Schools were given more money for
attracting more students.
- Schools will raise their standards to attract
parents/customers.
- This was a published ranking of schools based on the
League Tables - Tough & Brooks: Better educated middle-class families
results of standardised tests. Which schools were getting
Secondary 1992 with higher incomes are more likely to make choices
the highest results.
Primary 1997 based on a school’s performance while those from
- Allowed parents to choose the best school for the disadvantaged working-class families are more likely
academic success of their child. to choose schools that are near to their homes and
which their children’s friends attend.
- This was a governing body for all schools. - Ball: The speed of change alarms headtorches
Ofsted - They carried out inspections of schools and published a (DfE/Ofsted guidelines changed in 2014 after reports
publicly accessed report showing how well schools met of ‘extremist’ Islamic plot to take over schools in
certain standards of provision. Birmingham).
- More than just academics. The results fed into league - Ofsted reports can be complicated, MC parents have
tables. the cultural capital to understand why what is being
- Allowed parents to make an informed decision about looked for in inspections is important.
their child’s education.
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