Social policy and education

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  • Social policy and education
    • The tripartite system
      • Grammar schools
      • Technical schools
      • Secondary modern schools
      • Problems with tripartite system
        • Only two types of schools were available to most people as few technical schools were built because of the cost to equip them
        • Pupils who went to secondary moderns schools were seen as 'failures' at the age of 11
        • Girls had to achieve higher marks than boys in order to attend grammar school
        • The social class divide remained intact
    • Comprehensive schools
      • Educates all children in one school, regardless of their class, ethnicity, gender or ability
      • Problems with comprehensive schools
        • Comprehensive schools did not live up to their ideals
        • Most comprehensive schools organised their classes by ability.

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