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Education and policy (Comprehensive education (introduced to remove…
Education and policy
Comprehensive education
introduced to remove inequalities, remove stigma of academic failure at 11, to break down class barriers, to end selection at 11, and to abolish selection and educate all types of student
Comp school organised in a way that people would be assigned to catchment area, all people living in that area regardless of class or ability would attend the same school, every student receives equal opportunity and social barriers would be broken down
growth - towards 1960 LEAs rebelled stopping grammar and sec mod schools to create comp systems. Labour party strongly encouraged LEAs to reorganise their school system along comprehensive lines
progress to full comprehensiveness was a problem as labour party pushed for expansion whilst conservatives were more concerned about providing appropriate education for all, however by 1979 80% of pupils educated in comprehensives
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1944 butler act
Aimed to create highly trained and efficient workforce by transferring vocational skills and aimed to create meritocracy via equal opportunity.
Consists of 3 stages: primary education, Secondary education, further education
The tripartite system: this depended on what you got in 11+, aiming for a one size fits all system: Grammar schools for the academically inclined, secondary tech schools for practical minded and secondary modern for everyone else
The 11+ in order to ascertain the school best suited each individual all children sat an examination at end of primary school, this decided which school they get in to.
Types of school
Grammar school - for top 15 - 20% of students, studied academic subjects eg science, languages, advanced mathematics and classics
Secondar modern for 60 - 70% of children, these children were seen as less able, the curriculum was far more vocational focusing on subjects such as: book keeping, woodwork and home economics
Technical schools for less academic and more technical, aimed at occupations such as engineering, 5% of children given places at these, and focused on mainly vocational and practical subjects
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