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Spens Report
The Spens report came with initial recommendations that there should be three different types of schools to suit children’s needs;
Grammar Schools for the more academically able, Technical Schools for those who are of the more technical minded, Modernised Schools for the remaining secondary school students. He also recommended that the school leaving age should be raised to 16, however this was not implemented until 1973. -
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Educational History
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Norwood Report
The Norwood report on a basic level recommended that children should be advised to go to different types of schools depending on the Primary school teachers opinions as to where said child excels. Also an entry level exam should be conducted (11 plus) to confirm whether they are suitable. -
Education Act
This was where education became available for everyone except those considered disabled. However there was a section which stated that LEA’s were responsible for 11 different categories of handicapped people and allowed them the opportunity of an education, it was also their responsibility to monitor their development. -
McNair Report
The main reasoning behind the report was to recommend the rationalisation of teacher training provision, a three year course and salary increases. -
Barlow Report
He recommended that there should be more funding provided to help reduce the critical shortage of scientists by developing an 'ambitious program of university expansion'. In the hope to double the yearly output of students graduating with a science degree. -
Education Act
School leaving age raised to 15 regardless of the recommendations that it should have been 16. Free school milk was provided to all children. The main implement which came as a result of the act was the tripartite system began. -
Clarke Report
The main reasons behind the report was to recommend that the government provide adequate secondary schools for all, which a better teacher to pupil ratio as to allow for the modern methods of teaching being allowed to be implemented. -
School leaving age raised to 15
The first year of students began to be effected by the raise in the school age. -
Clarke Report
The report was based on wanting the government to encourage local education authorities to improve facilities for out of school activities. It would also be their responsibility to supervise and maintain such activities. -
Underwood Report
More should be done to help the children get a better education regardless of their home life. For example providing foster care, hostel accommodation and counseling services. Therefore training in such areas would need to be provided and funded for. -
Colleges of Advanced Technology
Grants were issued covering 75% of the costs for advanced technology colleges as to motivate quick development of the projects. Birmingham had the first official CAT which is now knows as Aston University. -
Crowther Report
Main recommendations included yet again the increase of school leaving age to be raised to 16, a re-look at the curriculum as to develop a better standing for students wanting to carry on education post 16, as well as a relook into the further education options for example longer part time courses in a bid to reduce failure rates. Also the idea of developing a certificate of completion for those who finish school. -
Education Act
Although some tuition fees had been covered for some students since the Second World War the act called for extra grants and support for students attending their first degree or attending further education in such forms of a vocational course. -
Newsom Report
The main reasons behind the report to suggest more effort and research be put in for handicap children and how the learn and how to improve education for children from deprived background.
He also like many others suggested a raise in the school leave age to 16. -
Robbins Report
The main position of the report was to recommend improvements needed in teacher training, and further education as a whole to allow more options for people and to avoid overloading. -
Education Act
The act introduced a new qualification for students who attended the new modernized schools, this was called the CSE’s. However they didn’t allow for students to leave on an equal level when compared to grammar school students. The CSE’s top grades matched to lower grades of the GCE O-levels. -
Certificate of Secondary Education Introduced
The first set of CSE’s were introduced to allow students who werent sitting O levels could still gain a qualification from school. -
Plowden Report
The main recommendations from the report discussed that teachers should have more contact with children’s homes, there should be smaller class rooms in primary schools, a restructure of the schooling system with a three tier primary, middle, secondary schools and extra training for teachers. -
Education of Handicapped Children
The law was passed to ensure that everything possible was being done to support children with disabilities and to allow special education needs to be fulfilled. -
Leaving School Age Raised to 16
After many reports suggesting the school leaving age should be raised, it finally was in 1973. -
Warnock Report
More help should be provided to those with learning difficulties. Parents should have a point of contact with the schools to discuss any issues when necessary. Further education establishments should have designated staff in place to help children with learning difficulties still to be able to go into further education. -
Waddell Report
Allowing a fairer exam system, each school should be able to choose between the CSE’s and GCE’s and a criteria should be agreed across the country with the syllabuses and examinations. -
Education Act
This was the shortest act where Thatcher appealed the act put in place by Labour to allowed the LEA to be selective over student -
Education Act
This act allowed parents to have the decision on where they sent their children and be able to appeal if they dont get the school they wish. -
School Ciricumlum
It was decided that there was going to more dettail added to the system and the framework must be follow the next acedemic year. -
Rampton Report
The basics of the report are to improve the communication between parents and teachers communication especially when disruptive behavior is involved. Closer monitoring and improvements are a necessity for the LEA where special needs is concerned. -
Education Act
This act followed the Warnock Report for Special Education Needs, where parents had more rights so the LEA's had to identify the needs of children with learning difficulties and had to put procedures in place to assess those needs. -
Cockcroft Report
Talks about the practicality of mathematics and why it should be taught, as well as what teachers should be doing to improve the mathematics section within schools. -
Education (Fees and Awards) Act
This act allowed for the increase in tutition fees for students who weren't associated with the Britsh Isles and restrict the discretionary awards they would be entitled to. -
CATE
Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education was developed to set the teacher standards for all initial teacher trainng courses. -
Education (Grants and Awards) Acts
This act introduced Education Support Grants, which were given to the LEA's for government-specified purposes. This also was another step in taking control of education policy away from LEA's. -
Green Paper
The Green Paper focused on the needs for disables children and the parental influence. -
Swann Report
This report focuses on how schools should make changes in how to change attitudes towards teaching multicultural classes and the ethnic minority within those class rooms. -
GCSE's Introduced
The first GCSE’s were introduced. This provided an even scale regardless of what classification of school you attended. -
Education Act
This was yet another short act which concerntrated on further education grants. -
Education Act Number 2
This act was very important and detailed. Some of the highlighted points were that every school was required to have a governing body which also produced anual reports. LEA's still had the power to appoint and dismiss staff but only after consulting with the governing bodies. As well as the removal of coporal punishment for all children whose tuition fees were funded by the state. However some schools were still allowed to beat their pupils. -
Higginson Report
(Unsure of actual date) This report looked at education for 16-18 year olds and discussed how the A-Level system was too "narrow" so suggeted a 5 subject structure should be introduced. -
Local Government Act
This act is famous for section 28 which stated 'promoting teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship'. -
Education Reform Act
This may also be referred to as the Baker Act. It appeared to give powers to the schools but infact took control away from them and LEA's and provided the Sectretary of State will alot more powers. Although the Torries failed to get the selection process reinstated they used a new disguised with 'devices like opting out, open admission, city technology colleges and the introduction of "local markets" to allow the selection process to reappear. -
Cox Report
The group was asked to produce recommendations on the new curriculum for English on how to monitor attainment targets and progress of study. -
Elton Report
This report of disciplin within schools in total had 138 recommendations. The main out come of the report was that disciplin within schools was a shared responsibility of pupils, teachers, heads, other staff, governors, parents, local authorities, teacher trainers, curriculum councils, central government, and the School Examinations and Assessment Council. -
Education Act (Student Loans)
Thatchers last Education Act provided 'top-up loans' for students in higher education which in turn began the diminution of student grants -
School Teachers Pay and Conditions
Teachers salarie was reviewed and yet again the secretary of state was given even more powers -
Education (Schools) Act
Private contractors were employed to inspect schools and to publish their findings. Ofsted being established caused the moral between teachers to plummet due to the excessive work load which came before Ofsted were due to come and do an inspection. -
FE and HE Act
This act changed funding and administrations of Further Education and Higher Education. It also removed colleges of Higher Education from local government control and allowed 35 polytechnics to become universities. -
Education Act
This was the largest legislation in the history of education. I consisted of six parts which included; responsibility of education, grant maintained schools, children with special educatonal needs, school attendance, schools failing to give acceptable standards of education ('special measures') and miscellaneous. -
A* Introduced
A* was added to the grade scale to differentiate between higher and lower A grades -
Education Act
This act focused on making provisions for the establishment of teacher training agency and made regulations concerning the conduct of student unions. -
National Curriculum Tests
These tests were introduced for all pupils aged 7, 11 and 14. More commonly known as SAT's -
GNVQ's
The General National Vocational Qualification were offered as work-based alternative for those who weren't acedemically minded -
Education Act
This was yet again a huge legislation which in all consolidated all of the previous acts since 1944 -
Nursery Education and Grant Maintained Schools Act
Thhis act saw the introduction of the voucher scheme for ursery education. This allowed governors of grant-maintained schools to be able to borrow money -
National Literacy Stratagy
The national literacy stratagy was introduced in England to help raise literature standards in the United Kingdom -
Education Act
This act put the responsibility of disciplin and behaviour onto governors.
Allowed teachers to have the right to use 'such force as is reasonable' to restrain pupils.
An extension in the total amount of exclusion days from 15 to 45.
Local authorities had to creat a plan to deal with children who had behavioural difficulties.
As well as limiting the access pupils had to non-employed adults. -
Student Loans Act
This where the student loans moved into the private sector and were no longer state funded. -
Starting School
My very first primary school was Stokesay in Craven Arms -
Teaching and Higher Education Act
There was a reform in student loans and allowed paid leave from work for training towards a qualification. The main reason for the act was to improve the standards of teaching through out the UK. -
Moser Report
The Moser report focused on the necessity to improve adult numerousy skills. Also the need to provide adult workshops to improve their mathematics. -
Introduction of AS-Levels
This was introduced as a half way point for A-Levels in a bid to make the qualification more stagard -
Change of School
I moved house from Craven Arms to Bridgnorth and had to start a new school St Marys Bluecoats Schhol -
Four-Part Diploma
Mike Tomlinson suggested the introduction f a four-part diploma for 14-19 year olds calling it "core-skills" which only allowed pupils to complete it based on whether they passed English and Mathematics. -
Children Act
This act was put in place protect children and focus on disabled children to improve their quality of life as well as that of children of all ages. -
Year 6 SAT's
Before leaving St Marys I had to complete SAT's as an assessment for Secondary School -
Start of Seondary School
After completion of my year 6 SAT's I started Bridgnorth Endowed School -
Education and Inspection Act
Pupil banding became compulsary to ensure mixed abilities. Failing schools were also given a year to improve. Parents were given the rights to set up new schools, close failing ones and be able to sack the head teachers. Due to loosing powers Local Education Authorities became 'parents' champs' rather than education providors. Also teachers gained more legal rights to diciplin children. -
Raising the School Leaving Age to 18
All students must now stay in some form of education up until the age of 18. -
Year 9 SAT's
I was one of the last years to have to complete compolsory year 9 SAT's -
GSCE's
Although I left home during the middle of my GCSE's I was still able to make it out of school with decent GCSE's allowing me to study at college -
SCAT
I started Shrewsbury College of Arts and Technology studying Beauty Therapy -
Completion of College
In the two years at college I gained both level 2 and 3 qualifications in Beauty Therapy -
Apprenticeship
During my pregnancy I completed an apprentiship at Tesco -
Application for University
Bored at Tesco I needed a new challenge so randomly decided to apply for University and to everyones surprise I got a place.
