The Impact of Different Policies on Primary School

This report analyzes the impact of national, local, and institutional policies on primary schools in the UK. It considers the political, economic, and social factors that affect organizational practices and teaching styles. The report concludes that policies are necessary for guidance and innovation, but their implementation should acknowledge the impact of external factors.

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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................2
Political factors...............................................................................................................2
Economic factors............................................................................................................3
Social factors..................................................................................................................3
Conclusion......................................................................................................................4
References......................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
Every child needs to develop and grow into a responsible citizen of the country. It is
important to secure an environment, which involves parental love; care of school faculties as
far as early education is concerned. This part is important as it creates a permanent impact on
a child’s mind. Their future identity and nature depend on the provided environment where
they receive ultimate protection, education and nourishment whether in home or in school.
This is why UK Government ensure that every type of schools of receive adequate resources
as well as effective strategies to work on their capabilities. Therefore, this report will focus
on impact of different policies like national, local and institutional policies on organisational
practice. In this case, the chosen organisation is an early year or primary school. In order to
do that, this research will consider social, political and economic factors as well.
Political factors
According to educational policies of UK, the Board first aims to comply with
Education Act 1944 to encourage spiritual, cultural and both the physical and mental
development of student from the very beginning of early days of school (McEwan 2015).
Pupils are needed to develop senses, which will help them to explore future opportunities.
Moreover, beyond the board regulations there are certain duties on such schools, which they
have to comply as a part of local authorities. Central government does not have any control
over the teaching curriculum unless Education Reform Act 1988 provides it to Secretary of
State as a form of power to modify the curriculum and assessment procedure. The central
consideration of these policy makers are to offer pupils a course, which would enlighten them
at its best. Besides, according to the study of Lingard, Martino and Rezai-Rashti (2013), it
supports school accountability and fix a considerable structure for children. A uniform

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national curriculum for schools first came in front in the early part of 90’s. However,
considering the changing needs of students it was further amended in later part of 2000’s.
Emigration policy of UK is liberal for students who wants to study in various institutions of
the country.
Economic factors
Under the Education Act 2002, section 80 encourages both the practice of religious
education and national curriculum within a schooling scenario. In case, even if the school is
under the category of FS (free school), every school must sign the funding agreement with
Secretary of State. Quality assurance in early childhood and school education act secures the
policies of inspection regulations (Fauth et al. 2014). National curriculum of various subjects
are released online according to academic year. Financial factors are dependent on inflation,
exchange and interest rates which are dynamic.
Social factors
There are several important aspects related to institutional policies, which have a great
impact on teaching and practice of schools. A strong teaching culture is committed to provide
excellent learning environment to children. Institutional policies must work for creating a
culture of effective pedagogical implementations. These practices suggest teachers to provide
opportunities of learning different characteristics, values of people apart from classroom. Due
to liberal immigration policies, UK classrooms are culturally diverse. This is institution’s
responsibility to establish uniformity. According to Liu (2013), installing various
technological tools must be incorporated with the presumed policies. It has been proven that
institutional policies of teaching and learning are directly integrated with teaching practices
of faculty members. However, relationship between policies, culture and teaching style differ
from one institution to another. It depends on different school categories as well. Institution

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level policies hardly have a strong impact on teaching style of faculties. It influences the
styles yet differences can be found as teachers apply variety of methods to make the students
understand the lessons (Darling-Hammond and Lieberman 2013).
Change of policies influence the faculty autonomy highly and custom of institutional
setting. In between complying with the various policies, teachers’ performance and work
ethics are altered eventually. It has been observed that if curriculum is congested with
regulations, teachers’ tend to lose control over it, which affects their performance mostly. As
described in Rice et al. (2013), the task of grooming students in an academic setting, teachers
are supposed to play the role of social activist and counsellor at the same time. Apart from
parents, teachers are the persons with whom children are spending their most of the time.
Therefore, besides providing them educational lessons, the early stage of schooling is
important for gaining perception about outer world.
Conclusion
After acknowledging advantages and disadvantages of national, local and institutional
policies of UK, it can be stated that without proper policies it is difficult to deliver guidance
and innovate new strategies to operate ant organization. It is true that application of various
policies together may hamper spontaneous institutional practice and teaching style. However,
policies require to be implemented to achieve the desired consequences acknowledging the
impact of external factors as well.

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