Education Flashcards
Name the 4 types of schools
- Secondary Modern - Gave a general education
- Grammar - Admitted on the basis of ability - academic
- Technical - Students learn physical skills
- Comprehensive (made in 50s) - Both elementary and secondary aged students with all types of education
What Act was passed in 1918? (education)
‘Fisher’ Education Act
- Increased school leaving age to 14
- Provided nursery to toddlers
- Scrapped fees to elementary school
- Provided free, compulsory health checks for 2ndary students
+ and - of Grammar Schools
+ Provided good education
+ Brighter students could get a scholarship
- Charged fees
- System was based on wealth
- Couldn’t continue students’ education after 14
Name the 1944 Act? (education)
‘Butler’ Education Act
- State secondary schools no longer charge fees
- Leaving age raised to 15
- Millions of working-class children now have access to free and compulsory secondary education
- Girls were now able to attend school
What was the 1926 Report regarding education?
Haddow Report
- Education should be split into primary and secondary
- Focus on living interests and practical work
- Raise leaving age
What was the 1967 Report regarding education? Also the issues caused because of it
Plowden Report
- Nursery work should focus on learning through play, as well as having more projects
- Schools introduced ‘relaxed discipline’ - no uniform, students could watch TV
- Parents became worried about ‘trendy teachers’ and the lack of discipline
+ and - of Comprehensive schools
+ 3x the amount of resources of 2ndary schools
+ Comprehensive reform would help many children avoid ‘poor schools’
- 1976 - Government forced to direct grammar schools to become comprehensive schools, thus many grammar schools became private, and so free places were removed and poorer parents couldn’t afford the fees
What happened before the Robbins Report in terms of universities? (1963)
- Rising number of 2ndary pupils and the growing recognition of the economic value of education
- Government funding went from £1mil to £80mil in 1962
What was the 1963 Robbins Report?
Suggested:
- Universal national grant to be provided to all students with a university place
- Large increase in state funding to increase the number of university places
- Wanted better access to university
- Was recognised: between ‘62 and ‘70 - number of universities doubled
What was university like in the 20s and 30s?
- Funded mainly through grants by the Local Education Authorities and Charities
- More women than before attending
- After 1919 - funded by government directly
Who were Percy and Barlow, and what did they recommend in their report?
Reformers
- Privileged position of classical education in the universities should be challenged in favour of Science and Engineering
- Universities should be dramatically expanded to cater for large numbers of students
- Barlow report stated that there were not enough scientists and engineering students and also argued for a government-funded expansion of universities
What was university like in the 60s and 70s?
- 1961 - Government set up Robbins Committee
- Opened more universities - By 1970, 11 more opened
- 1971 - Open university was founded
(Advised against by Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher) - Large numbers of men and women were able to go to university and were enabled to obtain qualifications
- Large increase in students
- By 1970s - 1/2 a million students in further education
- Social class within universities remained a controversial issue
- Pupils from private schools has an ‘elitist’ attitude
