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Participation in higher ed is limited
Participation in higher education is about 3.4% of school leavers -
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The Labour Manifesto 'Challenges to Britain'
Proposes abolition of selection at age 11. Sets the scene for 'comprehensive' education -
The Crowther Report
For the Central Advisory Council for Education. Forward looking, aiming to understand the future needs of the educational system in the ten years after 1965. It highlights key themes: shortage of teachers; lack of places at universities; a pre-occupation with education for an elite; ambiguity over how strong the link between further education and employment should be when taxpayers bear the cost. -
Introduction of student grants
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The Robbins Report
argued that undergraduate places should be available “to all who were qualified for them by ability and attainment" – ‘the Robins’ principle’. Influential in making the case for expansion of UK universities in the 1960s. -
New universities open
Essex, Lancaster, Kent and Sussex and students receive state support. State-funded growth of universities. State-paid fees and maintenance were intended to support a broader base of students. -
DITCHLEY on US style liberal arts
Ditchley conference: Relevance of American Liberal Arts Colleges to British Higher Education.
Chaired by A.D.C. Peterson, Director, University of Oxford, Department of Education -
A University of the Air
Harold Wilson as leader of the opposition gave a speech at a Labour Party Rally in Glasgow on the 8 September 1963 in which he outlined proposals for facilities providing home study to university and technical standards on the basis of a ‘University of the Air’. -
DITCHLEY reimagining education
Ditchley conference: Education by correspondence and television
Chaired by A.D.C. Peterson -
DITCHLEY American Studies in the UK
Ditchley conference: The teaching of American Studies in Britain Chaired by Marcus Cunliffe of the British Association for American Studies -
DITCHLEY on Educational Aid
Principles and policies of Educational Aid, especially in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean.
Sir Roger Stevens, QT, CMG - Vice-Chancellor, University of Leeds -
Anthony Crosland, Minister for Education
Supports the movement for Comprehensive Schools. His Circular 10/65 requires Local Education Authorities to propose schemes for comprehensive re-organisation on lines laid down by the Dept Education & Science. -
DITCHLEY educational aid
Ditchley conference: Aid to developing countries through new educational techniques Dr Leslie Farrer-Brown. CBE, JP - Chairman, Executive Board, Centre for Educational Television Overseas -
DITCHLEY access to medical education
Post-Graduate Medical Education Lord Cohen of Birkenhead - President, General Medical Council -
DITCHLEY education for management
Management Education J.W. Platt, Chair Foundation for Management Education -
DITCHLEY selective or comprehensive
Selective and comprehensive systems of secondary education Prof W.R. Niblett - Dean of the University of London Institute of Education -
Student numbers increasing
Percentage of young people in higher education (8%) -
DITCHLEY learning morals
Moral values in education -
DITCHLEY training for service
The training of young people for rescue, relief and service H.R.H. The Prince Philip, KG, PC, KT, GBE, Duke of Edinburgh -
The Newsom Report
Calls for integration between private and state schools and an assisted places system. (Long-term issue of co-existence of state and private sectors.) -
DITCHLEY risks of creating brain drain
Ditchley conference: The ‘Brain Drain’ from developing countries Lord Jackson of Burnley, FRS - Pro-Rector and Professor of Electrical Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology -
DITCHLEY students and new politics
New political ideas and movements, with particular reference to student and racial unrest. The Rt. Hon. Lord Shawcross, PC, QC – Chancellor, University of Sussex -
DITCHLEY on the purpose of university
The changing attitudes of the young to the purposes of a university, and the consequences for university policies and government Professor W.R. Niblett - University of London Institute of Education. -
The Open University Founded
“an industrial revolution in Higher Education”. A significant innovation driven by Michael Young and described as a systems-based approach. -
Fight for Education by the Critical Quarterly
The first of the “Black Papers” Fight for Education was published in opposition to Government White Papers and ‘progressive education’. -
DITCHLEY The purpose of academic communities
The meaning of an academic community. Sir John Wolfenden, CBE -
School leaving age raised
The minimum age in which a young person may leave school is raised from 15 to 16. (It was raised from 14 to 15 in 1947). Crowther proposed raising the leaving age to 16 in 1959. -
DITCHLEY on education and youth
Ditchley conference: Education and youth problems. The first of a series of discussions over three years on education and youth The Rt. Hon. Lord Boyle of Handsworth, PO - Vice-Chancellor, University of Leeds. -
DITCHLEY Education and youth
Education and youth problems (second conference.
The Hon. Lincoln Gordon - School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University. -
DITCHLEY Education and youth
Ditchley conference:
Education and youth problems (third conference). Sir John Wolfenden. -
DITCHLEY on Education and youth
Ditchley conference:
Education and youth problems (fourth conference). Sir John Wolfenden -
DITCHLEY on education and youth
Ditchley conference: Education and youth problems (fifth) Sir John Wolfenden -
DITCHLEY Education and youth
Education and youth problems. John Vaizey, Prof of Economics, Brunel University -
Student numbers are growing
Full-time student numbers reached 217,000. By the end of the 1970s around 14% of school leavers go to university. -
DITCHLEY Higher education financing
Higher education: problems of access and financing-examination of overseas policy.
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Thomson of Monifieth, KT, PC - Chairman, Independent Broadcasting Authority. -
DITCHLEY Young people in 10 years' time
Ditchley conference: Younger people in society in 1985. Prof John Vaizey -
DITCHLEY planning for increased leisure
Ditchley conference:
Implications of increase in leisure time. The Rt. Hon. Lord Edmund-Davies, PC - Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. -
DITCHLEY Young people & the industrial economy
Ditchley conference: Young people in contemporary industrial society.
Lord Wolfenden -
DITCHLEY on Training
Training policy: opportunities for initial and continuing training - what should be provided by whom? Sir Alastair Pilkington, Director Pilkington Brothers ltd. -
Miners' Strike and 3,248,000 unemployed.
A recession in the UK. One in five people out of work. Affects north and industrial areas badly. -
DITCHLEY Education and advanced economies
Ditchley conference: Higher education in an advanced society. Dr John E Brademas - President, New York University. -
Education Reform Act - standardisation
The aim was for education was to improve standards through marketization. Introduced League Tables, The National Curriculum and OFSTED. -
Education Act - new universities
Education Act paved the way for polytechnics and colleges of higher education to become universities. -
DITCHLEY on school education
Ditchley conference: Primary and Secondary Education. Sir Claus Moser, Warden Wadham College, Oxford -
DITCHLEY on Higher Education
Ditchley conference: Higher education. Jon Westling - Exec VP & Provost Boston University. -
DITCHLEY challenges for the developed countries
Ditchley conference:
Unemployment and industrial change in the developed countries. Professor Giuliano Amato - Professor of Italian and Comparative Constitutional Law, the University of Rome La Sapienza -
DITCHLEY on youth crime
Ditchley conference: Preventing youth crime. The Honorable Janet Reno – Attorney General of the United States -
Dearing Report on Higher Education
The Dearing Report is published National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education, the largest review of higher education in the UK since the Robbins Committee in the early 1960s, which recommends the introduction of a mix of grant and loans. -
DITCHLEY Crime, school and community
Ditchley conference: The prevention of youth crime: schooling, neighbourhood and intervention.
The Rt Hon The Lord Windlesham CVO PC – Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford; President, Victim Support. -
DITCHLEY on education systems
Ditchley conference:
School-age education: tasks, systems, performance. Bernard Shapiro, Principal and VC, McGill University. -
Student numbers still rising
Full-time student numbers reached 1.15 million. Around 30% of young people in Higher Education. -
DITCHLEY Education and democracy
Ditchley conference: Civil Society: Young people and citizenship. Baroness Howe of Idlicote – President, UNICEF UK. -
DITCHLEY Education, technology, values
Ditchley conference: Higher Education: the global future and value of universities in the information age. Sir John Kingman FRS – Director, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge. -
Foster Review of Further Education
A major independent review of the future of further education in England - realising the potential. Investment in FE buildings announced by government in 2005 budget. -
DITCHLEY on political opinions
Ditchley conference: How do young people form political opinions?
Robin Lustig. BBC World Service. -
DITCHLEY on the future of universities
Ditchley conference: Universities: securing the future. Chaired by Mr Bahram Bekhradnia – Director, Higher Education Policy Institute. -
Student numbers still rising
Full-time student numbers continue to increase – almost 50% of 17-30 year olds had participated in higher education (2017/18) -
The Augar Report
A review of post-18 education and funding chaired by Philip Augar, “Post-18 (or ‘tertiary’) education in England is a story of both care and neglect, depending on whether students are amongst the 50 per cent of young people who participate in higher education (HE) or the rest.” -
DITCHLEY Modern Education
Ditchley conference:
Modern Education: what is contemporary education for, whom should we be educating, and how is it best achieved? Professor Stephen Toope, OC – Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge. -
Centenary Commission
Centenary Commission report on Adult Education published.
https://www.centenarycommission.org
