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1944 Education Act
Established three stages of education Primary, Secondary and further Education.
Free Compulsory Education to 15
Free Education to 18
Exams for children at the age of 11 seperating children based on age, ability & aptitude p16 tomilinson -
GCE "O" Level and "A" Level
General Certificate of Education (O) and Advanced (A) Level examinations replaced School Certificate P14 Tomlinson -
Crowther Report
The crowther Report - raising school age to 16 years. Introduction of new exam in 1962 Certificate of Secondary Education (CSE) -
CSE
1962- Certificate of Secondary Education (CSE) - Introducting certification -
1963- Newsom Report
1963- Newsom Report - to raise school age to 16 which took place in 1972 p18 Tomlinson which showed statistics -
The Plowden Report 1967
Children and their Primary Schools. This report was looking at the child in the centre of learning and the reason why it came about was to remove pressure since 11+ look at p22 Tomlinson Good examples -
School Leaving age raised to 16
During the Mid 70's un employment was rising and this is the reason for increasing school age -
YTS
Manpower Services Commission set up to address the growing Problem of Unemployment -
Callaghans Speech in 1976
James Callaghan Labour Prime minister claimed that schools were failing pupils. They did not plan the curricula according to employability -
Surj Born
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Thatcher Government 1979-1997
Thatcher in Government for all my education -
Christ Church infant school
Christ Church CE Primary School, Leicester Street, Whitmore Reans, Opened in August 1897 -
West Park Junior School
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Swann Report
officially called Education for All, was a government report advocating a. multicultural education system for all schools -
1986 City Technology Colleges
Introduced: 11-18 schools partially funded by industry. Run on business lines longer school day offering a vocational as well as an academic curriculm -
1987 Task Group on Assessment & Testing (TGAT)
Identified attainment Targets - showing what level each pupil would achieve at what keystage -
Valley Park School
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GCSE'S
GCSE'S Introduced replaced all subjects to give an combination of both coursework and exams -
1988 Education Reform Act
A National Curriculum stating that core subjects English, Maths and Science must be taught from the ages of 5 to 16. In 1988 I was in my second year of secondary School -
Grant Maintained Status (GM Schools)
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1993 Dearing Review
The Dearing Review recommended a slimmer National Curriculm and a range of academic /vocational pathways for students between the ages of 14-19 -
Started at Wolverhampton College (known as Wulfrun College then)
Studied BTEC National Diploma in Computer Studies -
University Of Wolverhampton
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New Key Stage 3 National Curriculum for Year 7
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1978 Warnock Report & 1981 Education Act
Categories of "handicap" were replaced by "Special Education Needs", LEA to take responsiblity to assess SEN. Children with SEN to be eduacated in the mainstream schools -
1986 National Council; For Vocational Qualification
Introduction of NVQ'S to accredit competence in the workplace and this led to parallel introduction of vocational Education at school and colleges. This is was introduced because of unemployment levels. -
1986:The Trialling of 16+ examinations combining GCE "O" Level with CSE
This was due to goverment pressure to improve school league tables -
1988 Education Reform Act
Testing of core subjects English Maths and Science. Introduction of SATs for ages 5, 7 and 11 -
1992 OFSTED
Office for Standards in Education - the pupose was to monitor and report on quality of schools. Looking at both good and failing schools and giving them advice on how tro improve. -
1992 Department of Education & Science (DES)
1992 Department of Education & Science (DES) became Department of Education (DFE) -
2004 Every Child Matters
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Swann Report
This report
