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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
10/05/1944	1944 butler act	Major reform took place after the world war in 1944.The board of education was changed into Ministry and Ministry of education was to ensure that LEAs executed national education policy in an effective way. The powers of LEA were extended i.e responsible for secondary and further education as well as elementary education + funding and grants for further education. The school leaving age was raised from 14 to 15.Three stages of education were introduced primary,secondary and further.
04/08/1945	Need of Teacher training	An emergency training programme was introduced in 1945, with 53 training colleges opened by 1950.
09/29/1947	Changes in Examination system	Minister of Education issued a report proposing changes to examination system in secondary schools – report based on school record and tests being given to every child on leaving with one external examination for those over sixteen instead of existing advanced examinations.
10/09/1951	GCE	GCE introduced at Ordinary and Advanced levels: unlike School Certificate, where all subjects in a group had to be passed, a single subject exam.
10/05/1959	Cowther report	In 1959 the Crowther report, Fifteen to Eighteen, recognised that the sixth form was primarily designed to prepare young people to enter university, but the report also recognised that by 1959 some schools were providing sixth form courses of a more general nature.
10/01/1965	Circular 10/65( Anthony Crosland)	Circular 10/65 is a Government circular issued in 1965 by the Department of Education and Science (DES) requesting Local Education Authorities (LEAs) in England and Wales to begin converting their secondary schools to the Comprehensive System. For most of England and Wales, it marked the abolition of the old grammar schools and secondary moderns, and the Eleven Plus examination. In practice, the DES used its financial muscle to make opposition to the change harder.
10/09/1967	Plowden Report	Children and their Primary Schools arguably the best known of all education reports, it promoted child-centred education and was much discouraged by traditionalists.
10/09/1973	School leaving age	School leaving age raised to 16.
10/09/1975	grammar school abolition	in 1975 ILEA announced grammar schools under its authority were to be abolished and a fully comprehensive system imposed on all secondary school children by 1977
10/09/1980	1980 education Act	Parents given right to choose the school they wanted (though LEAs could refuse on grounds of inefficient use of resources.) Parents given rights to be represented on school governing bodies. * School governors required to provide information to parents on a variety of matters (exam results, criteria for admission, curriculum etc.) * Restricted certain powers of LEAs and gave Education Secretary more powers in certain areas of policy.
10/09/1981	School Curriculum	It is the individual schools that shape the curriculum for each pupil. Neither the government nor the local authorities should specify in detail what the schools should teach.
09/08/1986	Primary School	1986 was the year when I started school and i stayed in this sachool for 5 years.
10/08/1986	1986 Act	The new General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) will replace O Levels, CSE and the joint 16+ examinations. The first examinations will be held in 1988 The National Council for Vocational Qualifications (NCVQ) was set up in 1986 to promote National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs).
10/08/1988	Reform Act (Bakers Act)	Introduction of national curriculum, key stage 1,2,,3 and 4 schools were given more control overl manging the finance and Responsibility for the appointment and dismissal of staff would be transferred from the local authority to schools' governing bodies
08/15/1991	F.G. Quaid -e- Azam Secondary School
10/09/1991	Curriculum assessment for 7 years old
10/09/1995	SAT at key stage 2
10/08/1997	Fauji Foundation Girls College
10/09/1997	1997 Act (specialist schools)	secondary schools would be encouraged to become 'specialist schools' which would be allowed to select a small proportion of their pupils on the basis of 'perceived aptitudes';
09/01/1999	University of the Punjab Lahore, Pakistan
10/09/2003	every child matters	govt. initiative that was lauched in 2003 and following this came act 2004 also know an child act
08/08/2008	Gove and his views	He condemned the 'pupil-centred learning' theories which had gained support in the 1960s for 'dethroning' the teacher:
09/21/2008	Universty of Wolverhampton
11/26/2008	The Act raised the education leaving age to 18.
10/09/2009	key stage 3 test	key stage 3 SAT were abolished
11/09/2009	Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act	created a framework for apprenticeships and a right to an apprenticeship for suitably qualified 16-18 year olds; gave employees the right to request time off for training, and required employers to consider such requests seriously;
10/08/2011	1986 Act	The new General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) will replace O Levels, CSE and the joint 16+ examinations. The first examinations will be held in 1988
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
02/07/1944 to 10/08/2011	Education timeline uk