Abduz Zaheer Education Timeline

By AbduzZaheer

  • 1944 Education Act (Rab Butler)

    Free schooling until 18.
    Compulsory schooling until 15.
    Three school types established: Grammar, Technical and Secondary Modern. Attendance dependent upon '11 plus' tests
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    Clement Atelee’s Government

  • GCE Introduced

    Aim: to cater for range of subjects taught.
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    Conservative Government

  • King Edwards College, Nuneaton

    King Edwards VI Grammar School (11 May 1552) converted to Sixth Form College.
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    Thatcher's Conservative Government

  • Conservative Government - Thatcher

  • Education Reform Act 1988

    National Curriculum Introduced - Set out compulsory subjects and topics to be taught until the age of 16.
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    John Major's Labour Government

  • My Birth

  • Further Education Act

    Change of funding and administration for further and higher education.
    32 Polytechnic colleges converted to Universities.
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    Tony Blair's Labour Government

  • Education Act

  • Specialist Schools Programme

    Implemented in January and March.
    My secondary school expressed interest in many specialisms.

  • Academies Introduced

    Self-governed, non-profit charitable trusts.

  • Etone - Technology College Status

    Etone gained Techology specialist status. So the race for specialisms begins!
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    Attended Etone School, Nuneaton

  • Etone - Language Specialism

  • Etone - Vocational Specialism

  • Etone - Radio 1 Star Pupil

    Pupil won competition and some music 'star' attended the school.
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    Gordon Brown's Labour Government

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    Kind Edwards College, Nuneaton

    A-Levels - Maths, Further Maths and Physics.
    A/S Levels - Chemistry

  • Etone - Adds Sixth Form

    Sometime, maybe around here, but probably not. Etone adds a sixth form! Horay?

  • Specialist School Programme Ended

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    Conservative Government

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    University of Birmingham - Theoretical Phyiscs

    Theoretical Physics Degree

  • Etone - Academy

    Etone became an academy, but chose to be called Etone College. Did not acknowledge its academy status and, unusually, dropped its specialism titles.

  • Etone - Ofsted Success!

    Etone successfully gained Inadequate Ofted report! Again?

  • Graduation

    University of Birmingham - Theoretical Physics
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    PGCE

    Being(ish) and end(ish)