New labour and inequality
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- New labour and inequality
- They designated some deprived areas as Education Action Zones and providing them with additional resources
- Aim higher programme
- Raise aspirations of groups who are under-represented in higher education
- Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs)
- Payments to students from low income backgrounds to encourage them to stay on after 16 and gain better qualifications
- For example, despite introducing EMAs to encourage poorer students to stay in education, labour also introduced tuition fees for higher education- may deter from going to university
- Payments to students from low income backgrounds to encourage them to stay on after 16 and gain better qualifications
- National Literacy Strategy
- Literacy and numeracy hours and reducing primary class sizes- greater benefit for disadvantaged groups- reduce inequality
- City acadamies
- Created to give a fresh start to struggling inner-city schools with mainly working class pupils
- Increased funding for state schools
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- Melissa Benn (2012)- see a contradiction between labour policies to tackle inequality and its commitment to the ‘new labour paradox’
- For example, despite introducing EMAs to encourage poorer students to stay in education, labour also introduced tuition fees for higher education- may deter from going to university
- Melissa Benn (2012)- see a contradiction between labour policies to tackle inequality and its commitment to the ‘new labour paradox’
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