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The Education Act 1944 (UK)
The Education Act or 'Butler Act' was steered through Parliament by R.A. Butler. The Act provided free secondary education for all pupils to remove inequalities. The reconstruction established three part system: grammar, secondary modern and technical schools. Allocation to each of these schools was based on an 11+ test. -
Modern India 1947
After gaining independence, the education became the responsibility of the states and the Central Government. They coordinated the technical and higher education by specifying the standards. -
Directorate of Legal Studies established 1953
To improve the standard of Legal Education in the state of Tamil Nadu by framing new policies and rules. -
The Midday Meal Scheme 1956
A School meal programme from the Government of India designed to improve the nutritional status of school-age children nationwide. The programme supplies free lunches on working days for children in primary in government, government aided, local body, Education Guarantee Scheme, and alternate innovative education centres. -
Department of Technical Education 1957
DTE is a higher education governance body formed under the government of Kerala mangled by the Ministry of India. It formed 12 government engineering colleges, 49 polytechnic colleges, three colleges of fine art, 39 technical high schools, 17 government commercial institutes, 42 tailoring and garment making training centres and four vocational training centers. -
Formation of Board Exams 1960
The Central Government set the ages for candidates who wish to take board exams. Those at least 15 years old by the 30th of May for a given academic year are eligible to appear for Secondary board exams, and those 17 by the same date are eligible to appear for Higher Secondary certificate board exams. It further states that upon successful completion of Higher Secondary, one can apply to higher education under UGC control such as Engineering, Medical, and Business Administration. -
Formation of Central Board of State Education 1962
CBSE conducts the final examinations for Class 10 and Class 12 every year in the month of March. The results are announced by the end of May. -
The Official Language Act 1963
"Three language formula" to be implemented in secondary education. The introduction of the English language, the official language of the state where the school was based and Hindi. Although the decision to adopt Hindi as the national language had proven controversial. -
Education Commission (1964)
PM Indira Gandhi announced the first National Policy on Education. and equalise educational opportunities in order to achieve national integration and greater cultural and economic development. The policy called for fulfilling compulsory education for all children up to the age of 14. -
Kothari Commission 1964
Kothari Commission set up by the Government of India to examine all aspects of the educational sector in India, to evolve a general pattern of education and to advise guidelines and policies for the development of education in India. -
Secondary School Leaving Certificate 1965
SSLC is a certification obtained by a student on successful completion of an examination at the end of study at the secondary schooling level by passing the grade 10 public examination. This examination that has been formulated by the board of education, not by members of the faculty of the school. The performance of a student in the SSLC examination is one of the factors in admission to University Courses. SSLC is regarded as the first important examination that a student undertakes. -
The Official Language Act 1966 - 1968 (Revised)
The policy also encouraged teaching of the ancient Sanskrit language, which was considered an essential part of India's culture and heritage. However, this language was not incorporated into the curriculum. -
Survival Schools 1970
Schools started focusing on basic learning and living skills, the schools strongly promoted Indian culture including the history of place, culture, and community -
Change in School leaving age 1972 (UK)
School leaving age raised to 16. This left a number of school leavers who had left at 15 but were required by law to complete a further year of education -
PGCE 1976 (UK)
The Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) was introduced to provide training in order to allow graduates to become teachers within maintained schools. -
Formation of Correspondence studies 1985
The policy expanded the open university system with the Indira Gandhi National Open University, which had been created in 1985 to enable distance learning. -
Integration of new subject on National Policy on Education (NPE) 1986
The National Policy on Education (NPE) integrated environment awareness, science and technology education and introduction of traditional elements such as Yoga into the Indian secondary school system. -
Education Reform Act 1988 (UK)
The National Curriculum stated English, Maths and Science as core subjects. -
GCSE 1988 (UK)
GCSEs were introduced in 1988 to replace the GCE and CSE qualifications. -
OFSTED (UK)
The Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) was established to monitor the quality of schools. This included school inspections and research into wider issues such as equality, teaching and learning in specific subjects.
If schools were not providing 'value for money', they would be identified as ‘failing’ or ‘giving cause of concern' and put under ‘special measures’ and given targets for improvement. -
First day at School 1999
I started studying in 1999. I studied LKG in 1999 in Indo British School. -
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Indo British School
I studied LKG to Year 4 in Indo British School. I studied subjects like English, Maths, Tamil, Science and Social studies. -
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Neelan Matriculation School
I studied Year 5 and 6 in Neelan School. The subjects I studied there were English, Tamil, Maths, Science, Social studies, Religious education, Hindi and PE. -
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ANA Matriculation School
I moved to this school in 2006, I studied Year 7 to Year 10 in this School. The subjects I studied here were English, Maths, Tamil, Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, History, Geography and Arabic. -
Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009
Education has been made free for all children of age 6 to 14 years under the right. -
Sat SSLC 2010
I sat the Year 10 Public Examination in 2010. -
Academies Act 2010 (UK)
The Academies Act 2010 aimed to make it possible for all publicly funded schools in England to become academies. Academies generally find that their relationship with the local authority is no more difficult than it was before -
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GCSEs and A - Level
I did my GCSEs and A-level at George Dion Academy. Initially, I thought that A-level is going to be similar to GCSE with a slight difficulty. When I had my mock exams, I was shocked by the grades and worked as hard as I could and got good grades. A-levels exams were the most difficult exams. This is where I grew a passion for ICT and this carried on throughout the rest of my academic career. -
Moved to UK 2010
I had to move away from India in 2010, I studied Year 11 in George Dixon International School. First, I found it difficult to adapt to the new country and school. I had to do all GCSE subjects in a single year. I found this difficult as I did not have previous experience in sitting those exams. I studied wide range of subjects, some of which, I did not study in India. I passed my GCSEs and managed to get decent grades. -
Modern India 2011
Indian education system is divided into different levels: Pre-primary, Primary, Elementary, Secondary, Undergraduate and Postgraduate. -
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Birmingham City University
I got into Birmingham City University and studied Information and Communications technology. I enjoyed the first two years. Although my final year was challenging and stressful, I still enjoyed it. it was a busiest year as I had to apply for PGCE, attend interviews, pass the skills test along with the assignments, dissertation project and exams. -
Birmingham City University 2013
I got into Birmingham City University and studied Information and Communications technology. -
Computer Science 2015 (UK)
GCSE and A-level information communication technology (ICT) are replaced by Computing or computer science subject. It is part of the government’s GCSE reforms for “more academically challenging and knowledge based” qualifications. -
Graduated from Birmingham City University
In July 2016, I graduated from Birmingham City University with a BSc (Hons) First Class in Information and Communications Technology. This represented three years of hard work -
Samacheer Amaippu Kalvi 2016
The main need for this system to be proclaimed as the syllabus was that all the school students must have uniform study, diminishing the variations between the Matriculation or Government School Students. The motivation for a uniform syllabus was obtained to reduce the differentiation between students from households with varying income. -
GCSE grading reform 2016
A new grading scale of 9 to 1 are going to be used with 9 being the top grade. This will allow greater differentiation between students and will help distinguish the new GCSEs from previous versions. -
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Univeristy of Wolverhampton
I am currently studying PGCE Computer Science in University of Wolverhampton in order to pursue a career as a secondary computer science teacher.
