Sociological perspectives on the role and functions of education in society; the significance of in-school processes such as teacher labelling and subcultures for pupil identities; explanations for differences in educational achievement by social class, gender and ethnicity; the impact of education policies of marketization, selection and privatisation, and the globalization of education
Education policy to 2022 has been influenced by neoliberalism: we now have a well established market in education with monitoring done centrally by government authorities while little has been done to address equality of educational opportunity.
From 2015 the conservatives cut funding for education, carried on with academisation and the pupil premium, supported more state selective education, encouraged the EBacc and introduced T Levels.
Academies were first introduced under New Labour in the year 2000 to drive up standards and improve equality of opportunity. However academies under the coalition and the new Tories have been more about creating a quasi market in education.
10% more children now need extra help with their language skills because of lockdowns.
Neoliberalism holds that education systems should be run according to free market principles. Neoliberals believe that education should be privatised both endogenously and exogenously, parents and students given more choice and voice and they also advocate for more top down surveillance and performance management.
New research from the Office for National Statistics suggests more support for the long term impact of material deprivation on
According to The Guardian, over 10 000 A-level students who are predicted to get three Bs in their A-levels this
A recent report published by the Education Policy Institute examined the trend in the education disadvantage gap in England over
The UK government’s main policy to help students catch up on missed schooling during the Pandemic has been to provide
Black children are still three times as likely than white children to be excluded from school according to a recent