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at Dorchester, Winchester, Hexham, Malmesbury, Lichfield, Hereford and Worcester.
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Passed to regulate and protect the apprenticeship system, forbidding anyone from practising a trade or craft without first serving a 7-year period as an apprentice to a master.
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Academies set up to cater for students who did not wish to subscribe to the articles of the church of England. Some of these still survive, the oldest being Bristol Baptist College.
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Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth appointed as first permanent secretary
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Allowed endowment funds to be spent on modern and commercial subjects
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Between 1841 and 1852 five School Sites Acts passed to facilitate the purchase of land for school buildings and allowed for ' Parliamentary Grants for the Education of the Poor'
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Campaigned for better education for girls and women
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Facilitated the establishment of institutions for the promotion of literature, science and the arts.
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1858 Cambridge local examinations
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Recommended provision of 'sound and cheap' elementary education, led to 1870 Elementary Education Act
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Recommended a national system of secondary education based on the existing endowned schools, led to the 1869 Endowned Schools Act
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The 'Forster Act' introduced compulsory universal education for children aged 5-13 but left enforcement of attendance to school boards.
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Made further provisions regarding elementary education, including new rules on child employment.
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Created county councils and county borough councils which later became the framework for educational administration.
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Royal Commission on Secondary Education reviewed the progress made since the 1868 Taunton Report.
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Abolished school boards and established local education authorities ( LEAs).
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A subject-based curriculum introduced.
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The Acland Report argued that LEAs should be empowered to require under 17s to participate in some form of post elementary education.
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Established to administer the New School Certificate and Higher School Certificate.
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Proposed school leaving age of 14 with no exemptions, followed by attendance for at least 8 hours a week or 320 hours a year at day continuation classes up to age 18.
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Consolidated all previous laws relating to education and raised school leaving age to 14.
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The differentiation of the curriculum for boys and girls respectively in secondary schools.
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The Education of the Adolescent: proposed junior and senior schools with transfer age 11, secondary education for all, and increase in school leaving age to 15.
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The Primary School: set out the committee's vision of primary education.
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Infant and Nursery Schools: the last of the six Hadow reports.
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Raised leaving age to 15.
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Curriculum and Examinations in Secondary Schools
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The supply, recruitment and training of teachers and youth leaders: recommended rationalisation of teacher training provision, a three year course and salary increases.
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Children Act made provision for the care and welfare of children without parents or whose parents were unfit or unable to take care of them.
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allowed school crossing patrols to control traffic
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Training of special needs teachers
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A report by the Central Advisory Council which examined the problem of premature school-leaving in England
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Recommended raising the school leaving age to 16 and the provision of further education for 15-18 year olds.
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This report led to the introduction of the Certificate of Secondary Education ( CSE) in 1965
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LEAs placed legal obligation on parents to ensure that children received a suitable education at school or otherwise. If parents did not comply they could face prosecution.
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Founded the Schools Council to bring ideas together about curricular reform in England and Wales
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Transferred responsibility for education of severely handicapped children from health authorities to LEAs
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Had effects on school admissions, appointments and the curriculum.
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New laws relating to discrimination and race relations with implications for schools and education authorities
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I can remember being happy at this school, and the friends I made, even though I was only there a short time.
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A series of 15 discussion documents from HMI.
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My family had moved from Walsall to Great Wyrley. Walsall schools started their children younger and I remember being way ahead of the other children, especially in reading and writing.
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Recommended a single exam at age 16 to replace the GCE O level and CSE. The first GCSE exams were taken in 1988.
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Major report on provision for children and young people with special needs
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The first plans for the Youth Training Scheme (YTS)
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Transferred to middle school along with my peers
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Major report on the teaching of maths
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A series of 17 discussion documents from HMI. They include The Curriculum (1985) and Mathematics (1985).
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My first job was as a Saturday library assistant in Pelsall library. The staff were lovely and it was a great job. I went also went on to do holiday cover across all the Walsall libraries.
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Studied A levels in mathematics, chemistry and physics.
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Major act establishing the National Curriculum, testing regime, Local Management of Schools etc
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Got a job as an assistant chemist, the company paid for me to study for a chemistry degree one day a week at Wolverhampton University.
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Moved away and started a chemistry degree at Hull University. Enjoyed course and did well academically but was extremely homesick.
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New arrangements for the inspection of schools led to the creation of OFSED( Office for Standards in Education)
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I was desperate to return home so transferred my chemistry degree to Birmingham University. However I did not enjoy the new environment and after the second year left.
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Returned as a research chemist working with flame retardants.
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Huge act mainly to consolidate all education acts since 1944.
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Due to my husband's work we moved back to Cannock, Staffordshire
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David Blunkett announced the government's intention to create a network of academies - In a way private schools paid for by the state
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King's Manor School, Guildford.
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A government initiative aimed at reducing teacher's workload by employing more unqualified classroom assistants
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Led to the 2004 Children Act
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Undertook training and became Ofsted registered. Had many happy years looking after children called Emily, Cameron, Joe and Ethan.
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Inquiry into post-14 mathematics education
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As a childminder I was encouraged to gain a professional qualification. Gained a merit.
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Bought a Kumon franchise and opened up the Cannock Kumon Study Centre.
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Education leaving age raised to 18
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Wide-ranging document covering teaching, leadership, behaviour, new schools, accountability etc.
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National Curriculum review
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City & Guilds Report examining how changing government policies have affected the skills landscape over the past three decades
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