Outline What Is Meant By Selective Education

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Briefly outline what is meant by ‘selective education’ (the tripartite system) and ‘comprehensive education’ and assess how each of these approaches actually affected the life chances of the generations of students who were educated under these systems.

This essay will discuss how the different types of education systems can affect students’ academic and social outcomes in life, drawing on the 1944 Education Act. I should expect the outcome of this essay to reveal that the life chances of students who attended the selective education schools e.g. grammar schools will have better opportunities than students who attended a comprehensive school.

Firstly selective education relies more on a child’s academic ability rather than any other aspect of a child’s life/background. An example of selective education would be a grammar school as children who would want to attend a grammar school would have to pass an exam and would then be accepted based on their academic ability. The act claimed to make secondary education …show more content…

Primary schools were created were children would start at age 5 and then leave at age 11. The school leaving age was also raised to 15.
(Talk about the norwood report)
The LEAs (local education authorities) organised schools into grammar schools, secondary modern and technical schools, the 11+ tests would then determine what school a child would go to. The central government adopted a tripartite system that intended about 15% of 11 year olds should go to the grammar schools, 15% to the technical schools and the remaining 70% should be educated in secondary moderns. This tripartite system A comprehensive school is where there is no selection on entry, all children irrespective of background or ability are accepted and educated in this school and are all given the same opportunity within the system. There was a slow and uneven move towards comprehensive

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