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GCE O- and A-levels introduced
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Maths educational timeline
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Comprehensive schools created
Harold Wilson's newly-elected Labour government promises to set up comprehensive schools, combining pupils of all ability levels. -
CSE introduced
Certificate of Secondary Education. Prompted from 1960 Beloe Report, introduced in 1963 with first exam in 1965.. -
Polytechnics established
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Decimalisation of currency
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Start school (Lightwoods Primary)
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School leaving age raised to 16
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Start Perryfields High School
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ZX81
Learnt to program - Basic -
BBC computers enter school
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Cockcroft report "Mathematics Counts"
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Passed O-Level
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Started West Park College
They have knocked it down now, this is the school opposite... -
Passed A-level
Pure Mathematics with Mechanics (A) -
GCSE introduced
Courses started in 1986 with first exam in 1988. -
Passed more A-levels
Pure Mathematics with Mechanics (again) (A) and Special Paper (Distinction). Further Pure Mathematics with Mechanics (A) and Special Paper (Merit). -
Started Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Mathematics department. -
Black report - League tables
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Graduated from Cambridge
Took mathematics all three years focussed on theoretical physics in second and third years. Second class (not split at Cambridge). -
Started the Actuarial Professional Exams
Sponsored by William M. Mercer Fraser. -
Computer power in my first job!
IBM PS2 386 Processor. Basic, Fortran, Pascal... -
Learned APL
APL = A Programming Language. -
SATs introduced
National Curriculum Standard Attainment Tests introduced for all children aged seven, 11 and 14. Phased between 1991 and 1995 as each cohort completed a full key stage. -
Polytechnics given university status
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Ofsted created
Prompted by Education (Schools) Act 1992. -
Master of Arts
Picked up my free MA four years after graduating.. -
A* introduced for GCSE
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Went to Canada
Secondment for 18 months. -
Learned C++
Learned C++ on secondment. -
Became a Fellow of Institute of Actuaries
Finally passed all of the the exams. -
Moser Report Improving literacy and numeracy: a fresh start
Fresh Start scheme: aimed to revitalise 'failing' inner-city schools and the National Numeracy Strategy. -
AS-levels introduced
Advanced Subsidiary level introduced in 2000 with first exam held in 2001. -
First academies established
Introduced in the Learning and Skills Act 2000. Numbers increased following the Academies Act 2010. -
Smith Report "Making Mathematics Count"
Report of Professor Adrian Smith's inquiry into post-14 mathematics education. -
Primary National Strategy
Primary Framework for literacy and mathematics. -
CSFC Testing and Assessment
'The national testing system should be reformed ... in such a way as to remove from schools the imperative to pursue test results at all costs'. -
Ofqual established
Ofqual was set up in April 2010 under the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 and is also covered by the Education Act 2011. -
CSFC Report National Curriculum
Advocated a slimmed-down National Curriculum. -
A* introduced for A-level
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Vorderman Report
Vorderman report published on "A world-class mathematics education for all our young people". -
Decoupling of AS- and A-level
Impacted teaching from 2015 and first AS exam in 2016 and first A level in 2017. -
New grading structure for GCSE
English and Maths leading the way, other subjects to follow. -
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