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This act was introduced as an attempt to create the structure for the post-war British Education. The Act introduced free compulsory secondary education to 15 years of age in three different types of school. These were Grammer, Secondary Modern and Technical.
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This report recommended the establishment of the Certificate of Secondary Education (CSE).
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Leaving School age raised to 16 years of age and made compulsory.
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Work Experience was made compulsory for children in their last year under the school leaving age.
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This Act changed society by bringing equal opportunities to women. Illegal to discriminate.
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In effect made the academically selective independent school places by local authorities unlawful.
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This act was revolutionary within society as no longer could you discriminate against anyone on the grounds of race. It was illegal to do so.
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The Waddell Report School Examinations recommended a single exam at age 16 to replace the GCE and CSE. The GCSE was Introduced at a later date.
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Happy Days.
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My first day at nursery.
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GCSE stands for General Certificate of Secondary Education. The first GCSE courses began in 1986, and the first examinations were taken in 1988. This replaced the previous O Level and CSE systems by merging them together.
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The 1988 Act provided for a 'basic curriculum' to be taught in all maintained schools. The purpose of the National Curriculum was to standardise the content taught across schools. The Act also introduced Key Stages setting the educational knowledge expected of students at various ages.
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This was introduced as a set of subjects for which there were programmes of study and attainment targets.
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SATs were first administered in 1991 after being introduced in 1989. SATs. This was an exam that was introduced to test students at ages seven, eleven and fourteen.
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The establishment of OFSTED (Office for Standards in Education) to monitor and report on quality in schools. This included not only individual school inspections but also research into wider issues such as equality, teaching and learning in specific subjects.
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I attended Bordesley Green Girls School from 1993-1998
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This Act states the legal duties on schools and local authorities to meet the Special Educational Needs (SEN) of children.
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I was a reading tutor and a Mentor at my secondary school. The reading club took place during lunchtimes and this involved helping the year 7 students to improve their reading skills. The mentor role was to help students from yr 7 to yr 9 with any problems they may be having within school, lessons or out of school.
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This role involved supervision of all year students from year 7 to year 10 at break time and lunchtimes.
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Completed my GCSEs
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Information Communication Technology (ICT) introduced as a subject title.
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This act was introduced to make further provisions against discrimination, on grounds of disability in schools and other educational establishments.
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At college I studied 'A's Level Law and AdvancedVCE ICT.
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In 2003, the governement published a green paper called 'Every child matters'. This was aimed at transforming children's services. This was published following the death of Victoria Climbe. Soon after, the Childrens Act 2004 was also passed.
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I started working for Sandwell MBC as a Systems Administrator.
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I graduated from Birmingham City University.
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Ed Ball announces thate there will be no more SAT tests for 14 year olds from year 2009
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Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills (PLTS) are essential skills for work and general learning. The PLTS framework comprises six groups of skills that, together with the Functional Skills of English, mathematics and ICT will prepare learners to confidently enter work and adult life as confident and capable individuals.
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The act replaced all previous equality legislation such as the Race Relations Act, Disability Discrimination Act and Sex Discrimination Act.
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2010 white paper outlines how the status of the teaching profession will be raised and the quality of initial training and continuing professional development will be transformed. And it commits Government to cutting away unnecessary duties, processes, guidance and requirements.
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This Act takes forward the importance of teaching and measures from legislative proposals in the schools white paper, the department for business, innovation and skills including two elements of the reforms to higher education funding.
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I completed my very first school experience at Arthur Terry School and realised that I really wanted to become a teacher because of the satisfaction that I received by making a positive difference.
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After 7 years of graduating I decided that now was the right time to complete my PGCE and make that positive difference by becoming a teacher.
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An announcement was made by Mr Gove (Education Secretary) about setting out the proposals for the changes to Key Stage 4 qualifications from 2015.
