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Biography of Learning since 1944 Education Act
Free compulsory education for children upto the age of 15 and free education upto the age of 18. Lrd to Secondary modrn and grammar school system, although LEAs originally planned to include technical colleges,but there weren't enough teachers able to do this. -
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Growth of Comprehensive schools
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Crowther Report
Recommendation to raise school leaving age to 16, as it was felt alot of talent was being lost. This report also recommended comprehensive schooling for all and the introducation of a new qualification to reach lower ability, what was later to become the CSE -
CSE introduced
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Circular 10/65
This report recommended the abolishon of selection at 11 and the conversion of Grammar schools to comprehensives, supposedly then giving the grammar schol experience to all. -
Circular 10/70
With drew the policy that schools must become comprehensives -
School leaving age raised to 16
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The Day I was born
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Manpower Services Commission set up
Set up to tackle youth unemployment through schemes such as YTS -
Sex discrimination Act
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Started nursery mornings only
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Race Relations Act
Although this came in at this time I was the only Asian child in my class and was not expected to succeed because of this -
Started Junior School
William Harding Infant School -
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Thatcher Era
Living in Buckinghamshire, the heart of the conservative party strong hold, there was strong support for the Grammar school and selection. There were three grammar schools in my home town alone, the Boys Grammar School, known just as The Grammar, the girl's grammar school, known as Aylesbury High School and Sir Henry Ffloyd. At the time it was more prestigious to send your son and daughter to the single sex school, so that's what everyone in the area I lived in pushed for. -
Started Middle School
William Harding Middle School -
Education (Special Education) Act
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Moved middle Schools
Broughton Middle School. It was not unusual to be sent to the headmasters office for a spanking or to have board rubbers or chalk thrown at you for talking -
Passed 11+ exam
Took 11+ was determined not to fail as DID NOT want to go tothe Grange which was a secondary modern. Selected to go to the girl's grammar school. My middle school were very proud of those who passed the exam and supportive of those that didn't! -
Began Grammar School
Aylesbury High School
All girls Grammar School School at the time definately bought into the frowning upon progressive teaching, it was very traditional. The John Collett was a progressive school in Buckinghamshire but although it got good results I remember it not being one of the schools my middle school recommended to parents, as it had strange hours, following a European style education pattern. -
Moved to Comprehensive School
Cedars Comprehensive School Leighton Buzzard -
National Council for NVQ
introduction of national vocational qualifications (NVQ) to accredit competence in the work place led to a parallel introduction of vocational qualifications in school and college -
Return to grammar school
Returned to Aylesbury High School, my parents had to argue for a space, as the High School was over subscribed as it was thought as a good school, we used the race card which at the time was a hot topic. Began GCSEs In the time I was away the local secondary modern school, the grange had become very run down as it was not seen as a priority by the LEA, secondary moderns were not prestigious. -
Educational Reform Act
National Curriculum Introduced and national testing at 5-14 years. This for me was the beginning of league tables, ranking schools by academic achievement -
GCSE sat by the first cohort of students
GCSEs introduced to replace CSE and GCE, to get rid of the two tier system. Greater emphasis on coursework and modularity -
Finished GCSEs
Finished my GCSEs through WJEC, got:
Biology, Art & design, English Literature, English Language, Maths, Physics and Chemistry all at C or above. Decided to go on onto A-levels as the only real alternative was YTS, which wasn't the thing to do if you'd been to a grammar! -
Moved to Wales in my final year of GCSE
Policy in Wales was that every student took Welsh having never studied it before I was put in the SEN class to mark time as it was decided that joining the school so late I wouldn't be able to learn Welsh. I found this frustrating as it meant that I firstly I had to drop subjects to move to Wales, but secondly I had to drop another just so I could sit in a class room and not be taught. -
Finished A-levels
Failed A-levels Miserably had lost interest in school
Did Chemistry and Physics with University of London Exam Board gaining E in both. Did Maths withUniversity of Oxford Exam board, gaining an E!! -
Ofsted Began
Schools could opt out and become grant maintained -
Finished work to return to education
Went to a EU funded women into work course at Walsall College, as I'd quit my job due to becoming allergic tothe chemicals I was working with.
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New Labour and Education
“We cannot run a first-rate economy on the basis of a second-rate education system” (Gordon Brown, 1997, quoted in Tomlinson, 2005, p. 202). Target standards for literacy and numeracy became top of the agenda, National Strategy outlined not just what to teach but how to teach. -
Began my Degree
Began a degree in Computer studies and engineering combined honours, but changed to Computing as I found the engineering wasn't taught in a manner I could understand -
Completed degree
Finished BSC Hons Computing, gaining a 2.i -
Began working at UCE - TIC campus
Began working at UCE's TIC campus in the network technology department, ended up teaching Cisco Academy courses as well as undergraduate courses. -
Completed Post Graduate Certificate
Working as a technologist/lecturer at the then UCE, teaching Network Technology, I had the chance to complete a Postgraduate Certificate in Education for Teaching and Learning in Further and Higher Education. This was part of a givernment initiative for lecturers. -
CELTA in Phuket
Fred and I wanted to spend time with family in the far east, so I got a job in Chiang Mai as the IT curriculum Manager, part of the contract was that I become CELTA trained so I spent four blissful weeks in Phuket studying for the certification! -
September 2006 Began MSc Business Studies at Aston University
Was thinking about changing careers or enhancing my existing skills, so began a MSc Business Studies -
Finished Masters
Finished Masters degree gaining an MSC Business Studeis with distinction! -
Began working for OCR
Began working as a qualification manager for OCR, covering GCSE ICT, Diploma in ICT and Level III Engineering Maths! Supervised some junior qulifications managers developing a range of other diplomas. The diplomas were a disaster1 -
Began PGCE Secondary Education ICT
Began ITT training
