Pupils who continue their education after age 16 in England and Wales can choose to stay in their school or attend a sixth form college. The constituent countries of the UK have specific approaches to the school curriculum, but there are common themes. These aim to ensure that:

· The progress of every pupil is carefully monitored

· There is continuity and progression in the development of skills and knowledge

Governments have had a long history within education. The first time that an English Parliament became seriously involved with state education in a political way was in the early 19th century. Planned schooling was to play a major role in changing habits of poverty and providing the type of minimal instruction that an industrialising nation required. From 1833 onwards the question was no longer whether there should be state intervention in mass schooling but what form th

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The James Callaghan speech at Ruskin College calling for a great debate on education argued for contribution in education to improving industrial performance, as the concern was education was failing to produce appropriately skilled and motivated young workers. Equality of opportunity was deemed to be less important than the needs of industry. This was known as the new vocationalism and change was met.

1. The formal transmission of knowledge and skills from teachers to pupils

A major thrust of central government policy has been to 'break the provider monopoly' of state education held by local government education authorities (LEAs), which have administered state schools since 1902. In the 1970s, most LEAs changed from a selective system of secondary state schooling to a comprehensive one. Until the 1988 Act LEAs were able to exert considerable influence over the allocation of pupils to school places. The attenuation of the selective system and the protection LEAs could offer to schools which might otherwise become unviable due to a lack of sufficient students, are considered by right-wingers to be major factors in the perceived lowering of educational standards. Haralambos (2000) The Act enabled parents to vote for their child's school to opt out of LEA control and become grant-maintained (GM). Parental choice of school was increased which specified that a child couldn't be refused admission to a state school, which has spare places. The education secretary of state for education declared education as a central position in decision-making, freeing schools and colleges to deliver standards that parents and employers want. Encouraging the customer to expect and demand that all education bodies do the best job possible Hansard (1987 vol.123: 77)

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