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Timeline of educational policies
This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
1870-1978
1880 - education becomes compulsory and free |
1944 - Butler Education Act introduces tripartite system |
1965 - Tripartite system replaced with comprehensive schools |
1967 - Educational Priority Areas set up |
1972 - school leaving age raised to 16 |
3 main aims in UK policies
economic efficiency - improving the skills of the Labour force |
raising educational standards |
creating equality of educational opportunity |
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1979-1988
marketisation |
privatisation |
1980s - New Vocationalism established |
1988 - Education Reform Act - national curriculum, selection, SATS, league tables, new types of schools, OFSTED |
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1997-2010
Globalisation |
1997 - specialist schools set up |
1997 - Education Action Zones introduces |
1997 - Educational Maintenance Allowance (EMA) |
1998 - New Deal for young people |
1998 - Uni fees introduced |
1999 - Sure Start |
2002 - Gifted and Talented initiative |
2004 - Aim Higher |
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2010 onwards
2010 - Academies Act introduced |
2010 - Aim Higher ended |
2011 - EMA ended |
2011 - 300 schools to be rebuilt using PFI funding |
2014 - Pupil Premium introduced |
2016 - Grants to support poorest through uni ended |
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