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1944 Education Act
The proportion of 'free places' at grammar schools in England and Wales increased from almost a third to almost half between 1913 and 1937. However, when poorer children were offered free places, parents often had to turn them down owing to the extra costs involved.
The Education Act of 1944 was guided through Parliament by the Education Minister; R.A. Butler named after the minister, introduced the Tripartite System of secondary schools and, provided free secondary education for all pupils. -
Crowther Report '15 -18'
This act suggested that children from 18 years of age and under should stay in education. However, this is something that is been taken into action from 2013 and onwards. In regards to my choice after leaving school, I choose to stay in education and head towards college. -
School leaving age increased to 16
The increase in the leaving age ensured that students where legally in school until the age of 16. -
The day I was born
I was born on the 21st April 1990, at Dudley Road Hospital. -
Introduction of OFSTED
The Office For Standards in Education was formed in 1992, to regulate and inspect : local services, childminding, child day care, children’s centres, children’s social care, CAFCASS, state schools, independent schools and teacher training providers, and colleges and learning and skills providers in England.
During my time in education all the schools I have attended have gone under a OFSTED inspection, which I witnessed, this was definately a stressful tperiod of time for teachers. -
Started Playgroup-Anglesly
The playgroup that I attended is located in Lozells, Nursery Road. I attended this playgroup on a on and off basis before attending Nursery. -
Started Anglesey Nursery
I attended this nursery during the start of the academic year until we moved homes, where I had to change nursery. Thinking back on this, I have no recollection of how I felt, but I guess at the age of three I may not have minded moving to another nursery. -
Started WIlkes Green Nursery
After having settled down in Anglesey Nursery, my family and I moved to Handsworth where I started to attend Wilkes green Nursery and later moved on to WIlkes Green Infant School. -
Started Wilkes Green Infants School
After having attended Wilkes Green nursery, it made sense to attend the infant school. I attended a reception class there and stayed there till i was 6/7 years of age. Where I then moved on to a Junior School that was linked to the Infants school.
This was my step into the world of state education and the tripartitie system of education. -
Started Wilkes Green Junior School
I attended the Junior School until the age of 11/, before I moved onto secondary school. -
Introduction of Tuition Fees
The decision was brought about to charge students up to £1000 for their degree courses throughout the United Kingdom. -
Introduction of EMA in college
Education Maintence Allowance, this was introduced in 1999, where the government accessed the income of the students parents and provided the student with an allowance of up to £30 per week.
During my time at College I recieved £30 per week as EMA, as my household income was below a certain amount. -
Preparing and sitting my 11+ exam.
During Yr 5 in my Junior school, the teachers where quick to label me as 'bright' now at the time I didn't particularly care for the label, but my parents soon started to prepare me for the grammer test that I would sit later on the academic year. I was given extra tutition class and after school clubs to help me prepare. This I was comfortable with, but what I did not expect was to fail. After failing, I felt as if i was not worthy of the school and was made to feel a little thick. -
Choosing my GCSEs
During Year 10, I attended an assembly along with the rest of the year where a discussion on the different GCSE options I had available. As I was seen as a high ability student I was able to select whatever options I wanted, so I took the form home and my parents decided to choose them. Looking back on my GCSEs I didn't particularly enjoy all of them, I remember at the time I argued with my father for choosing Child Development when I wanted to study resistant materials. -
Special Educational Needs & Disability Act
Schools, colleges, universities, adult education providers, statutory Youth service and local education authorities have to make 'reasonable provisions' to ensure people with disabilities or special needs were provided with the same opportunities as those who were not disabled. The act ensures that no student is discriminated in school and that there is provisions available for them to participate in school based activities.
This is an important act, as it will be reinforced throughout schools -
Preparing for Year 6 SATs
The SATs In year 6 I sat my SAT exams which were introduced in 1988 ‘Education Reform Act'. The school was mentally preparing us for the SATs. At the time, I felt as if was incrediably stressful as it would be the only thing I was taught. There was so much emphasis on the SATs, and the levels each student had to obtain, and if a student got lower than a certain level then they weren't 'clever' or atleast thats how the students felt. I managed to get a level 5's in all my core subjects. -
Sitting GCSE Examinations
In the summer of 2001, I undertook several GCSE test, all of which I passed with a grade C and upwards. However, at the time I felt as if there was a lot of pressure on me to get good grades to get into college. The issue that I had during my GCSEs was that the teachers had told me that the GNVQ will no longer be taught at schools, your year is the last, EDEXCEL was the examboard that was used for GNVQ ICT, but the grades that the teachers allocated me with, where not what the examboard did. -
Starting Secondary School
After having failed my 11+ exam I didn't particularly want to attend this Secondary School since all my friends went to another school. However, my time spent at this school was incrediably enjoyable and the friends I made at this school are still my best friends today. -
Sat SATS in Yr9
During Yr 9, I undertook the SATs again. I feel that there was a purpose of these SATS as they would provide teachers with an idea of what level I am at, in relation to the core subjects of the curriculum.
After preparing for these SATs, I felt as if I could have done better. When I recieved my results, I wasn't particularly happy. as i felt they was useless, but was pressurised to get high results. However, my results still placed me in the top sets for the core subjects. -
Increase in tuition fees!
The student tuition fees where £1000, which then changed again in 2004, where the fees increased to £3000 per student.
Although, the fees increased I still wanted to attend university as I felt it was important for what I wanted to do as a career, therefore I was affected by the change but accepted it as I viewed a degree as a necessity. -
Professional Standards for Teachers
From September 2007, new qualifications will be introduced for the initial training of teachers in the lifelong learning sector in England. -
Starting Matthew Boulton College
After passing my GCSEs, I made the decision to attend a College rather than a sixth form. I wanted to get out of the school based environment and explore. Would I go back and attend a College if I had the chance, I'm not sure. Althought it was a great experience I felt as if it was too much independence in comaprison to school, but then again if I had stayed at HWGS sixth form would I have learnt the skills I learnt at College that I was able to use at University. -
Resitting A Levels
After spending two years at Matthew Boulton College, I was unhappy with the results that I got at the end of the two years. So I took action and did the year again, to improve my grades, although I had passed my A Levels I felt as if they could have been a lot better. After this year I was able to get three C's in Applied Business and Applied ICT at A2. -
Abolishment of KS2 SATs
The abolishment of KS2 SATs was definately something that I felt strongly about. I felt as there was a need for the SATs in year 9 as it provided students and teachers with a guideline of what level the students are working at. The abolishment of the year 6 SATs would have been beneficial as when a student starts secondary school, that school examines the student to see what level they are at, therefore it would have made sense to abolish the yr 6 SATs. -
Starting University of Wolverhampton
After having completed my A Levels, it made sense to go ahead and study at a degree level. I choose to study BA Hons Business and Computing (Information Systems).
My time at University was definately pleasant and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. -
Introduction of the A*
The A* grade was introduced in 2010 for students who achieve 80% and above in the overall A-level qualification and achieve 90% and over in all A2 modules. -
Education Act 2010
The Academies Act, came around in 2010, where the Government aimed to make all publicly funded schools in England to become academies, still publicly funded but with an increased amount of autonomy in issues such as setting teachers' wages and diverging from the National Curriculum. -
Increase in University tuition fees
The dreaded news! It was confirmed that the tuition fees for students at university wmay now have to pay up to £9000. A majority of universities have taken up this change. -
Started my PGCE in Secondary ICT
After having completed my degree in BA Hons Business and Computing and getting some experience in teaching, it felt right that I go into teaching. So, when I was given a place on the course I was overcome with joy. -
GRADUATION!!!!
After spending three years studying Business and Computing (Information Systems) at the University of Wolverhampton, I was happy to finally graduation.
My time at University was certainly enjoyable and holds a number of pleasant memories. -
Introduction of the GCE
The General Certificate of Education was introduced in 1951 replacing the older School Certificate (SC) and Higher School Certificate (HSC). It was intended to cater for the increased range of subjects available to pupils since the raising of the school leaving age from 14 to 15 in 1947.
The introduction of the GCE brought about A-Levels and O Levels. -
Increasing Student leaving age to 18
Future Government plans consit of keeping the student in school based education until they reach 18 years of age to improve the current issue where students lack skills and work related experience.
