CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT + NEW LABOUR
Academies
Free Schools
Policies to reduce inequality
Fragmented centralisation
- Ball - promoting free schools and academies = increased fragmentation over educational services
- E.g. system being replaced by private providers leads to greater inequality in opportunities
2012 - all schools were encouraged to become academies
- Funding was directly from the government
- Academies were given control over curriculum
- Funded by the government but set up my parents, teachers, faith organisations/businesses
- FSM + Pupil Premium (tackles the underachievement 'caused' by material deprivation
- Ofsted - found pupil premium is not spent on those who it is supposed to help
- Austerity programme = cut spending on school buildings by 60% - tuition fees tripled to £9,000
- Allows parents to have power - if unhappy with state schools in their area they can create these free schools
68% of all secondary school converted to Academies
Allen - only highly educated families benefit from free schools
Cameron - aim of coalition government = 'excellence and competition'
Policies to reduce inequality
Education Action Zones - local education + local businesses would tackle deprived areas of those disadvantages - e.g. money for IT equipment + better quality teachers
Policies to promote diversity
- promoted academies as a policy for raising achievement + plans to have 200 academies by 2010 - most academies were under-performing schools but academy status will raise the achievement of w/c pupils
New labour - 1997-2010 - introduced policies to reduce inequality `+ promote diversity
EMA - Education manitenance Allowance - encouraged lower income students to stay on after age 16 - payments
New Labour - A03
- Ben - New labour paradox - - introduced Ema's but new labour also increased tutition fees for higher education = contradiction