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Also known as the Butler Act (after Conservative politician R A Butler). Free compulsory education for all under Local education Authority control.
Specified schooling between 5 and 15 and controlled childrens employment. -
Encuoraged LEA's to think in terms of the tri-pargtate system, Grammar, Technical and Secondary Modern Schools. Withdrawn following Labour Party outcry.
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Free school milk provided to all pupils
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Restated tri-partite policy. Not compulsory but advised.
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General Certificate of Education (GCE) exams introduced. Replaced the School Certificate.
Aimed at top 25% of pupils.
Considered harder to pass than the predecessor.
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The Education Minister stops London County Council (LCC) closing Eltham Hill Girls' Grammar School and transferring its pupils to the new Kidbrooke Comprehensive School
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Minister of Education says
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Posed creation of CSE examination, for pupils ;incapable' of sitting O Levels.
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I was born
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Recommended greater share of rexources for average and below average pupils. Half our Future.
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Allowed transfer at other ages than 11.
Experimental middle school ststus -
End selection at eleven plus and to eliminate separatism in secondary education
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For lower ability pupils.
Encoraged academic separation in comprehensive and Secondary Modern Schools -
proposed that the direct grant grammar schools should either become comprehensives or go fully private.
Over the following six years a third of them (around fifty) went comprehensive, but the majority (more than a hundred) joined the private sector -
Stopped whole LEA proposals for comprehensivatiom.
Applications by indivisual schools only.
Mrs Thatcher Education Secretary created more comprehensives that any other Education Secretary -
11 plus tests
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Abolishion of free school milk
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St Chads College, Wolverhampton
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School leaving age raised to 16.
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Sat GCE O level exams
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General Paper
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General Studies
Chemistry
Physics
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Gave LEA's the right to select pupils by ability at age 11
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Aimed at creating more parental involvement in schools.
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Increased the rights of pupils with special needs.
Introduced the concept of statementing. -
Removed a large group of 14 to 18 year olds from LEA controlled education
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Higher charges for non UK steuents
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Education support grants.
Aimed at further reducing the LEA role in Education -
The promotion body for NVQ's
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Introduction of the GCSE Examination
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Teachers no longer allowed to hit state pupils
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Aimed at further reduction of the LEA powers.
Responsibility passed to head teachers for many aspects of policy.
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Took power from LEA and schools and transferred to central government
Marketised the public service
Introduced the National Curriculum
New rules on religious education and collective worship
Curriculum and assessment councils;
admission of pupils to county and voluntary schools;
local management of schools (LMS);
grant maintained (GM) schools;
city technology colleges (CTCs);
changes in further and higher education; -
Schools allowed to offer BTEC qualifications
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Start studying Computer Science.
University of Wolverhampton.
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Introduced loans for some HE students
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Created Ofsted
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Finished degree
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Jack Straw (Education Spoksman) says no room for selection at 11
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Responsibility for education
Grant-maintained schools changes in funding
Children with special educational needs
School attendance
Schools failing to give an acceptable standard of education Longest ever Education Act -
The National Curriculum and its Assessment: Final Report
First review of NAtional Curriculum
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Prime Minister Tony Blair's son starts at the London Oratory, Choice, should not be sacrificed to political correctness.
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Specialist Schools.
Literacy and numeracy hour
Performance tables
Setting for Science, Maths and Modern Languages
Conservative 'Selection by Specialism' to continue Local Grammar Schools to continue unless parental pressure to change. -
allowed maintained secondary schools to 'make provision for the selection of pupils for admission to the school by reference to their aptitude for one of more prescribed subjects'
LEAs and the secretary of state to intervene in schools judged to be 'failing' by Ofsted
community schools replacing county schools and foundation schools replacing GM schools. Voluntary schools (mostly the church schools) would stay the same. -
Effectively consigned the comprehensive system to history.
Selection of up to 10% of roll allowed. Effectively extending selection. -
City academies were to be public/private partnerships. Businesses, churches and voluntary groups would build and manage them, and they would be outside the control of local authorities.
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David Blunkett states intent to ignore the remaining 164 remaining Grammar Schools Parental ballot in Ripon results in maintaining the town;s Grammar School
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More control for the headteacher. More private sector involvement. More specialisation.
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Michael Gove announces 'Free Schools' policy
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Raised school leaving age to 18
Removed KS3 testing
Measures to address training and education for 16 to 18 year olds