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1944 Education Act
Also known as the Butler Act (after Conservative politician R A Butler). Free compulsory education for all under Local education Authority control.
Specified schooling between 5 and 15 and controlled childrens employment. -
Circular 73
Encuoraged LEA's to think in terms of the tri-pargtate system, Grammar, Technical and Secondary Modern Schools. Withdrawn following Labour Party outcry. -
Free Milk for Everyone
Free school milk provided to all pupils -
New Secondary Education
Restated tri-partite policy. Not compulsory but advised. -
General Certificate of Education
General Certificate of Education (GCE) exams introduced. Replaced the School Certificate.
Aimed at top 25% of pupils.
Considered harder to pass than the predecessor.
Had to be taken at 16 and 18. -
Not as comprehensive as it might be.
The Education Minister stops London County Council (LCC) closing Eltham Hill Girls' Grammar School and transferring its pupils to the new Kidbrooke Comprehensive School -
No Comprehensives Here
Minister of Education says
'Her Majesty's present government prefer justice. My colleagues and I will never allow local authorities to assassinate the grammar schools' -
Belleo Report
Posed creation of CSE examination, for pupils ;incapable' of sitting O Levels. -
Happy Birthday
I was born -
Newsome Report
Recommended greater share of rexources for average and below average pupils. Half our Future. -
1964 Education Act
Allowed transfer at other ages than 11.
Experimental middle school ststus -
Circular 10/65
End selection at eleven plus and to eliminate separatism in secondary education -
CSE's Introduced
For lower ability pupils.
Encoraged academic separation in comprehensive and Secondary Modern Schools -
Dennison Report
proposed that the direct grant grammar schools should either become comprehensives or go fully private.
Over the following six years a third of them (around fifty) went comprehensive, but the majority (more than a hundred) joined the private sector -
Circular 10/70
Stopped whole LEA proposals for comprehensivatiom.
Applications by indivisual schools only.
Mrs Thatcher Education Secretary created more comprehensives that any other Education Secretary -
11 Plus
11 plus tests -
Thatcher, Thatcher Milk Snatcher
Abolishion of free school milk -
Grammar School
St Chads College, Wolverhampton -
Fifteen. Stay at School.
School leaving age raised to 16. -
O Levels
Sat GCE O level exams -
AO Levels
General Paper
Additional Maths -
A Levels
General Studies
Chemistry
Physics
Mathematics -
Education Act
Gave LEA's the right to select pupils by ability at age 11 -
Education Act
Aimed at creating more parental involvement in schools.
Introduced parental choice -
Education Act
Increased the rights of pupils with special needs.
Introduced the concept of statementing. -
Technical and Vocational Education Initiative
Removed a large group of 14 to 18 year olds from LEA controlled education -
Education (Fees and Awards) Act
Higher charges for non UK steuents -
Education Act
Education support grants.
Aimed at further reducing the LEA role in Education -
National Council for Vocational Qualifications
The promotion body for NVQ's -
GCSE
Introduction of the GCSE Examination -
Corporal Punishment Abolished
Teachers no longer allowed to hit state pupils -
Education (No. 2) Act
Aimed at further reduction of the LEA powers.
Responsibility passed to head teachers for many aspects of policy.
Number of parent govenors to be equal to LEA govenors -
Education Reform Act
Took power from LEA and schools and transferred to central government
Marketised the public service
Introduced the National Curriculum
New rules on religious education and collective worship
Curriculum and assessment councils;
admission of pupils to county and voluntary schools;
local management of schools (LMS);
grant maintained (GM) schools;
city technology colleges (CTCs);
changes in further and higher education; -
BTEC
Schools allowed to offer BTEC qualifications -
University
Start studying Computer Science.
University of Wolverhampton.
Part time. -
Education (Student Loans) Act
Introduced loans for some HE students -
Education (Schools) Act
Created Ofsted -
Graduation
Finished degree -
No Selection
Jack Straw (Education Spoksman) says no room for selection at 11 -
Education Act
Responsibility for education
Grant-maintained schools changes in funding
Children with special educational needs
School attendance
Schools failing to give an acceptable standard of education Longest ever Education Act -
Dearing Report
The National Curriculum and its Assessment: Final Report
First review of NAtional Curriculum
Reduced curriculum and testing -
Hipocracy?
Prime Minister Tony Blair's son starts at the London Oratory, Choice, should not be sacrificed to political correctness. -
Excellence in Schools
Specialist Schools.
Literacy and numeracy hour
Performance tables
Setting for Science, Maths and Modern Languages
Conservative 'Selection by Specialism' to continue Local Grammar Schools to continue unless parental pressure to change. -
School Standards and Framework Act
allowed maintained secondary schools to 'make provision for the selection of pupils for admission to the school by reference to their aptitude for one of more prescribed subjects'
LEAs and the secretary of state to intervene in schools judged to be 'failing' by Ofsted
community schools replacing county schools and foundation schools replacing GM schools. Voluntary schools (mostly the church schools) would stay the same. -
Specialist Colleges
Effectively consigned the comprehensive system to history.
Selection of up to 10% of roll allowed. Effectively extending selection. -
City Academies
City academies were to be public/private partnerships. Businesses, churches and voluntary groups would build and manage them, and they would be outside the control of local authorities. -
Stop Hunting the Grammar School
David Blunkett states intent to ignore the remaining 164 remaining Grammar Schools Parental ballot in Ripon results in maintaining the town;s Grammar School -
Education Act
More control for the headteacher. More private sector involvement. More specialisation. -
Free Schools
Michael Gove announces 'Free Schools' policy -
Education and Skills Act
Raised school leaving age to 18
Removed KS3 testing
Measures to address training and education for 16 to 18 year olds
