Educational Time- Line

By yhussain

  • The education Act 1944

    LEA's were set up who were incharge of all school property and staff.
    Establishment of primary, secondary and further education which is available to all regardless of disability, class, wealth, race etc. Quality education should be provided to all,
    Private schools still remained.
    Compulsory education between the ages of 5 to 15. It is the duty of the parents to ensure children attendschool.

  • School leaving age raised to 15

  • Area training organisations

    By 1950 the LEA had set up 76 training colleges to allow training of quality teachers required for the new form of schooling.

  • Education Act 1962

    Legal requirement for LEA and parents to provide pupils with an education. Failure to comply resulted in prosecution.

  • Labour Government elected

    Huge amounts of money were spent by government on education.
    Increase in university places with more women attending further education.
    Labour promised to abolish the 11+ system and create a wave of comprehensive schools. However this was not completely implemented and the selection process remained. Even within comprehensive schools there were large amounts of selection as to who studies GCE and who studied CSE.
    In aread where 11+ was abolished primary schools had freedom to explore.

  • Conservative re election

  • Warnock Report

    Suggested that the GCE O level and the CSE be abolished and replaced with a single examination at the age of 16.

  • Education Act 1979

    Conservative government removed the labour condition on LEAs to convert schools to conservative schools. Allowed selection to reamin

  • Launch of GCSEs

    GCSEs replaced the GCE and CSE assesment system.

  • National Curriculum

    Plans to implement a national curriculum of education for pupils aged 5 to 16 which would be used to put all assesment criteria in place.

  • Youth Training Guarantee

    A guarantee was given by teh government that all individuals would either continue in educaion or be in suitable work upon the completion of compulsory education at 16.

  • Youth Training Scheme

    All 16 to 18 year olds were encourage to sign up to YTS once compulsory education was complete. An allowance was given to pupils registered on the YTS.

  • Education Student Loans Act

    Introduction of funding and allowance to individuals continuing in hugher Education. Later became the Studen Grant.

  • Ofsted

    Education Act introduced The office for standards in education which would assess schools in terms of the national curriculum.

  • Started Nursery

    Started Nursery
    Palfrey Infant School, Walsall

  • Full time compulsory Education begins

    Palfery Infant School, Walsall

  • Student Loans Introduced

    Individuals who wanted to continue in higher education could now take out a student loan.

  • KS1 SATs

    Wasn't totally sure what these exams were or why I was taking them. Didn't even know what exam results I achieved. First experience of sitting an exam

  • Begin Junior School

    Begin Junior School
    Palfrey Junior School, Walsall

  • Labour government elected

  • EMA and promotion o fpost 16 education

  • Sat the 11+ exam

    Tried out for Queen Mary's Grammer School, however was not selected

  • KS2 SATs

    Achieved three level 5's in English, Maths and Science

  • Secondary School

    Joseph Leckie CTC, Walsall

  • David Blunkett anounced intention to create Academies.

  • KS3 SATs

    Achieve three level 7's in English, Maths and Science

  • GCSE's begin

    Selected 10 GCSE's. For the first time in our school we no longer needed to select a language, I therefore did not select a language GCSE. We also had the freedom to select any four GCSE's we wished besides the core subjects of English, Maths, Science and Technology.

  • Early GCSE

    Achieve a Grade B in GCSE Maths at the end of year 10. Select to do an additional GCSE in statistics during the final year of my GCSE's.

  • Complete GCSEs

    Gain 11 GCSEs graded A* to C.

  • Start A Levels

    Joseph Leckie CTC
    Select three A levels in Biology, Geography and Sociology

  • AS Results

    Achieve grades ABB

  • Complete A Levels

    Achieve grades AAB at A Level whis meets my requirements to attend Aston University

  • School leaving age increased to 18 and KS3 SATs are scrapped

  • Start My Degree

    Start my Degree in Applied and Human Biology at Aston University, Birmingham

  • Fewer places in higher eduaction, tuition fees increased

  • Complete my degree

  • Graduation

    Attend my graduation ceremony at Birmingham Town Hall in honour of my 2:1 degree in Applied and Human Biology.

  • PGCE Starts

    Attend the PGCE course at the University of Wolverhampton, Walsall Campus, Walsall.