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EDUCATION - social policy, Have education policies since 1988 improved…
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Have education policies since 1988 improved quality of education opportunities...
- NR 1988 Education Act - mainly in raising standards not equal opportunities
- parentocracy = parents get to choose school
- marketisation = compete like businesses
- league tables published
(should raise standards as no parent would send a child to a failing school)
WORSENED EQUALITY
- m/c had more choice = cultural capital / skilled choosers
- school / parent alliance (BALL)
- selection by mortgage
- polarisation of schools - 'sink schools'
New Labour - interested in equal opps
- academies set up in poorer areas
- EMA
- Sure Start
- Expanded Vocationalism
WORSENED STANDARDS
- Sure Start didn't work
- EMA did work BUT Tories scrapped it
- Vocationalism offers more opportunities to
lower classes BUT regarded as inferior
EVALUATION:
- 1980s - Britain needed job-related training to combat unemployment
- seems to support functionalist view
- New Labour - expanded vocational education = a way to provide training needed to competitive in a globalist post-fordist economy
- 'The New Deal'- guaranteed training for 18-24 year olds who have been
unemployed for more than 6 months
- Apprenticeship scheme (2000) - criticised for being exploitative (cheap labour)
- w/c went down vocational route while m/c did A Levels - Marxist = reinforces divide
- important in society = some not suited to academic education SO it has a continued role to play