Yes I have some notes.
-The coal-gov introduced more ´free schools´and academies to create a fairer and more prosperous society.
-Free schools are inspected by OFSTED but they dont have to follow the national curriculum but they DO have to do maths, english and science.
-Coal-gov encourages parents, charities and teachers to set up a free school to increase DIVERSITY and CHOICE.
-They gave freedom over the curriculum and promised teachers to be given autgority over their students/classes.
-Coalition policies focuses on 4 main things: INDEPENDENCE, ACCOUNTABILITY, COMPETITION and DIVERSITY & CHOICE.
-Micheal Gove in 2010 believed that free schools would attract talented teachers due to the freedom from bureacracy.
-Critics claim that free schools favour those from middle class background.
-The NUT are against free schools as they argue that the increase in competition damages existing local schools. They also claim that these schools take away fundings from existing schools.
-The NUT carried out a research where they found out that these free schools actually WIDENS social inequalities (Haralambos & Holborn, 2011).
-Micheal Gove claimed that these free schools were created to improve standards in education in deprived areas. But research shows that free schools are establisged by people of middle class and predominantly caters for middle class students.
-Vasagar and Shepherd (2011) found out that in the areas where first 24 free schools that were opened, 57% of the students were from middle class background compared with an average of 42.8% in other types of schools in England. Also 18 out of the first 24 free schools had a lower proportion of students on FSM.
All these points are mainly focusing on free schools, if you would like notes on academies, changes to GCSEs and A-levels and 14-19 funding changes i will be more than happy to share them
(Ignore any grammar mistakes)