1. Starter For the following policies: Explain the policy
Name the study/studies that criticise it and briefly explain the study/studies:
Formula funding
Open enrolment
Grant maintained schools
League tables

2. New Labour’s Educational Policies

3. Learning Objectives
To explain which perspectives on education New Labour was influenced by.
To explain how New Labour policies improved equality of opportunity.
To evaluate New Labour policies.

4. New Labour’s Aims Reducing inequality Promoting diversity and choice
Which two perspectives on education do these aims reflect?

5. New Labour’s Policies
Read through the New Labour’s Educational Policies handout and highlight the key points.
Produce two spider diagrams. One needs to show which of New Labour’s policies reflect the social democratic view and the other needs to show which policies reflect the New Right view.

6. New Labour’s Policies
For each policy on your handout complete a table like the following
Policy
How it improved equality of opportunity
Evaluation

7. Evaluation
Are there any studies that you have used to evaluate Conservative policies that could be used to evaluate New Labour’s policies?
Using the Evaluation of New Labour’s Educational Policies handout complete the evaluation column of your table.
Remember to note down how the study evaluates the policy.

8. Essay Planning
Outline and assess the view that changes to educational policy since 1988 have resulted in greater equality of opportunity for all students (50 marks)