Educational Equality Policies (OCR A-Level Sociology): Flashcards

Marketisation, league tables, OFSTED, formula funding

Allocates funds to schools based on pupil numbers attracted

Competition improves schools & educational achievement

High-ranked schools choose mainly middle-class pupils

Working-class pupils forced to lower-ranked schools

Parents given greater choice over child's school

Have economic & cultural capital, better school choice

Financial support for 16-19 year olds in education

Tackle cultural deprivation, improve working-class cultural capital

EMA and Sure Start centres

£9,000 a year

Makes science compulsory, less patriarchal domain

87.5%

Ethnocentric, form of institutional racism vs ethnic minorities

Unequal opportunities, reproduces social class inequalities