In England there are multiple types of schools which teach students in different ways, 4 examples would be: Grammar, academies, comprehensive and free schools. Grammar schools were for high achievers and prepared them for going onto university and obtaining academic careers. Academies were to give the school more credit and to help surrounding Academies that are under achieving to make the education system more successful. Comprehensive schools are free schools that were for all abilities and taught a set of subjects (the National Curriculum) and gave children equal opportunities. Free schools were to give more freedom to the school over what they teach and was
Free Schools were originally talked about at the general election in May 2010; they …show more content…
The Prime Minister at the time was Tony Blare and he was part of the Labour party. Any Secondary or Primary school could apply to become an Academy with ‘outstanding’ schools being pre-approved (politics 2016). There were two types of Academy, sponsored academies and converter academies. Sponsor academies are set up to help un-achieving schools and give under achieving children career prospects and support(politics 2016). Sponsors also control the appointment of the Governing Bodies the Head teacher and the Academy trust. Sponsors don’t have to make financial contributed anymore however if they make money they can give it to a less fortunate school, Academies were first introduces so that high achieving Academies could help low achieving schools and Academies this was to improve the education system in England and bring results up across schools (politics 2016). Convert academies are established from outstanding schools and benefit from the increased status that the school gains (Long, R. 2015). After November 2010, schools ranked 'good with outstanding features ' by Ofsted can become an academy however they have to pair up with another high achieving school to promote improvement. There are three types of …show more content…
The Government was run by Harold Wilson with the Labour party. Comprehensive schools are for all academic abilities, the idea behind comprehensive schools was to give everyone a place in the school without bringing financial implications and without taking their background into consideration(Silvera 2016). A comprehensive school is a secondary school that teaches students a range of vocational and academic subjects, this is so that the students are offered a wide range of subjects and can choose which ones that want to study (with in guide lines) (Silvera 2016). Having mixed ability children in the school also means they can help each other out and help each other succeed, and gave everyone a equal opportunity. Another reason why Comprehensive schools were introduced was because of the 11 plus test that determined if a student would make it into grammar school which put poor people at a disadvantage as they could not afford the extra tutoring needed to put their children into grammar schools, they were controlled by LEAs. Silvera (2016) said, people believe the myth that because the schools are free they expect them to be bad, however that is not what people expect in reality, they expect their children to be able to go to school and achieve the best they can, even if it is a comprehensive(Silvera 2016). One of the problems of
Free Schools were originally talked about at the general election in May 2010; they …show more content…
The Prime Minister at the time was Tony Blare and he was part of the Labour party. Any Secondary or Primary school could apply to become an Academy with ‘outstanding’ schools being pre-approved (politics 2016). There were two types of Academy, sponsored academies and converter academies. Sponsor academies are set up to help un-achieving schools and give under achieving children career prospects and support(politics 2016). Sponsors also control the appointment of the Governing Bodies the Head teacher and the Academy trust. Sponsors don’t have to make financial contributed anymore however if they make money they can give it to a less fortunate school, Academies were first introduces so that high achieving Academies could help low achieving schools and Academies this was to improve the education system in England and bring results up across schools (politics 2016). Convert academies are established from outstanding schools and benefit from the increased status that the school gains (Long, R. 2015). After November 2010, schools ranked 'good with outstanding features ' by Ofsted can become an academy however they have to pair up with another high achieving school to promote improvement. There are three types of …show more content…
The Government was run by Harold Wilson with the Labour party. Comprehensive schools are for all academic abilities, the idea behind comprehensive schools was to give everyone a place in the school without bringing financial implications and without taking their background into consideration(Silvera 2016). A comprehensive school is a secondary school that teaches students a range of vocational and academic subjects, this is so that the students are offered a wide range of subjects and can choose which ones that want to study (with in guide lines) (Silvera 2016). Having mixed ability children in the school also means they can help each other out and help each other succeed, and gave everyone a equal opportunity. Another reason why Comprehensive schools were introduced was because of the 11 plus test that determined if a student would make it into grammar school which put poor people at a disadvantage as they could not afford the extra tutoring needed to put their children into grammar schools, they were controlled by LEAs. Silvera (2016) said, people believe the myth that because the schools are free they expect them to be bad, however that is not what people expect in reality, they expect their children to be able to go to school and achieve the best they can, even if it is a comprehensive(Silvera 2016). One of the problems of