Educational policy

Educational policy

1. The development of state education.

   • Phase 1: The middle class received an academic education for future careers, while the working class had elementary schooling in basic skills and left school early to work in factories.
   • Phase 3: The Education Reform Act. Introduced marketisation.
   • Phase 2: The tripartite system used the 11+ exam to allocate pupils to secondary school. This channelled middle class students into grammar schools and working class into non-academic education.
   • Phase 2.5: In 1965 the comprehensive system was introduced, replacing most grammar and secondary modern, and having schools based on catchment area.
     • However, schools still put their students into streams, keeping the working class in lower streams.

2. Marketisation policies.