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History of education
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Elementary Education Act - compulsory school attendance
The 1880 Elementary Education Act obliged local authorities to make byelaws requiring school attendance, and provided for penalties in cases where 10-13 year olds were illegally employed -
Elemtary Education Act- Elementary Education becomes free
The 1891 Elementary Education Act was another significant step in the process which the 1870 Act had begun, as it decreed that elementary education was to be provided free.
The Act provided for ten shillings (50p) a year to be paid as a 'fee grant' by Parliament for each child over three and under fifteen attending a public elementary school. The schools were forbidden to charge additional fees except in certain circumstances. -
Education Act (The Fisher Act)
School leaving age raised from 12 to 14. All young workers given the right of access to day release education (The raising of the leaving age was not immediately implemented, however, and had to wait until the 1921 Act). -
Butler's education act
1944 Butler's Education Act seeks to encourage the "spiritual, mental and physical" well-being of the community.It creates the "tripartite", hierarchical system of grammar, technical and secondary modern schools.
Selection is decided by an exam taken at the age of 11. Meanwhile, the school leaving age is raised to 15. -
GCE O-levels and A-levels are introduced
1951 General Certificate of Education (GCE) O-levels and A-levels are introduced, replacing the School Certificate and the Higher School Certificate.
These were primarily grammar school exams. Some education authorities established their own leaving examinations for youngsters not taking GCEs -
Labour gorvernment promises
Harold Wilson's newly elected Labour government promises to set up comprehensive schools, combining pupils of all ability levels.
Wilson was anxious to increase opportunity within society. In the education system this meant change and expansion: for the first time ever, a British government spent more on education than on defence. There was a significant increase in the number of university places, with more women undertaking higher education courses. But Wilson's record on secondary educatio -
The Certificate of Secondary Education introduced for secondary modern pupils
The Certificate of Secondary Education (CSE) is introduced for secondary modern pupils, to cater for those not sitting O-levels. The (CSE), introduced in England and Wales, increased the pressure on schools to divide students between 'academic' and 'non-academic' streams. 'Within comprehensives, GCE students were placed in different teaching groups from CSE students, while in the secondary modern school, students who were deemed capable of CSE entry were separated from those who were not' -
More power to parents
This Act (3 April 1980) began the process of giving more power to parents. Its main provisions were:
school governing bodies were to include at least two parents
parents were to have the right to choose schools and the right to appeal if they didn't get the schools they had chosen . -
HUGE IMPACT ON MY EDUCATION = Education Reform Act
The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) replaces the O-levels and CSE
The 1988 Act provided for a 'basic curriculum' to be taught in all maintained schools. which would set out 'attainment targets' The Act defined Key Stage 1 as ages 5-7, Key Stage 2: ages 8-11, Key Stage 3: 12-14, and Key Stage 4: 15-16
This had a huge impact on my education as GCSE exams assessed different things compared to O-levels,which made up the first level of the GCE; A-level being the second. -
Thatcher's Education (Student Loans) Act
Thatcher's last education act was the Education (Student Loans) Act which introduced 'top-up' loans for HE students and so began the diminution of student grants. -
LAVINIA DUNCAN WAS BORN
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Made provision for the establishment of Ofsted
The Education (Schools) Act (16 March 1992) made provision for the establishment of Ofsted (the Office for Standards in Education).
The agency was to employ private contractors to inspect schools and its reports on individual schools would be published. -
Introduction of A* at GCSEs
An A* grade is added to GCSEs to differentiate between top and lower A grades. -
Establishment of Teacher Training Agency
The 1994 Education Act made provision for the establishment of the Teacher Training Agency (TTA) and laid down regulations concerning the conduct of student unions. -
Begin reception
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Sats
The government introduces National Curriculum Tests, often called Sats, for all children aged seven, 11 and 14 ( tests for seven year olds were first tried in 1991). -
Lavinia starts Primary school
Gossey Lane, from 1995 -1997 -
Second primary school
Birches green - 5 months -
Third and final primary school
Whitehall junior school -
Advanced Subsidiary exams brought in.
Advanced Subsidiary (AS-level) exams are brought in for 17 year olds. These are qualifications in their own right but also a halfway stage in the A-level course, unlike the Advanced Supplementary exams they replace. -
Start of Secondary school
Start Joseph Leckie Community Technology College -
Mike Tomlinson - evoluntionary not revolutionary
Mike Tomlinson, the former inspector of schools in England, proposes replacing GCSEs, A-levels and the "soup" of vocational qualifications with a four-part diploma for 14 to 19 year olds. It calls for "core skills", such as numeracy and literacy, to be compulsory before pupils can qualify -
Lavinia does GCSE exams
GCSE's, end of secondary education -
Sandwell academy
Begin sixth form at Sandwell Academy; sister school of Thomas Telford -
Start of university
Begin Biomedical scence course at Coventry university -
Graduation
Graduated in Biomedical Science -
PGCE Chemistry
PGCE at Wolverhampton University, specialising in Chemistry
