Education

Question 1

How many kids in education in the 1930s?

Answer 1

Only 20% of kids in any form of education

Question 2

What was The Butler Act and what did it do and how efficient

Answer 2

Created a Tripartite system, Grammar Schools, secondary modern ,Technical

75% of kids whent to secondary moderns

The effect of the Butler Act was that millions of working class kids had free education and alowed girls education

Question 3

What was the Crowther report 1959 and what was the Newsom report 1963

Answer 3

It was Commissioned to look into education and more meritocratic.it made a series of recommendations such as

• raising leaving age to 16
• creating county colleges for post-sixteen ed
• improved sixth-form

Newsom:

Recommends

• there should be more reasurch on teaching technology
• improved sex education
• Parliamentary investigation should look into links between poverty and bad education
• more practical subjects for lower ability pupils

Question 4

What was the Education Act 1976? What did it do?

Answer 4

Labour. The Act retirated the 165 demands for LEAs to make there schools Comprhansives but didn’t force them.

Question 5

What was the Yellow book and the Ruskin speech?

Answer 5

Yellow book:

Callahan ordered a report into Education

Report called the ‘Yellow Book’ said that progressive education had caused massive harm . It staed that :

• school discipline had declined
• many schools no Educatioing in a way good for jobs
• govt had to little say over education

Ruskin :

Callaghan said that :

• progressive ed had some good points and had done good things when with good teachers but faild when with wrong teachers
• did wish to return to the learning of the 1950s
• there should be national clericulam
• greater scrutiny placed on teachers

Question 6

What where the Percy and Barlow reports

Answer 6

Percy report recommends

• classical education should be stopped in favour of science and engineering
• universities dramatically expanded to cater for large numbers of students

Barlow said :

That there were too few scientists and engineers

Question 7

What was the Robbins Committee ?

Answer 7

Said Britain was falling behind other countries

It said Britain must achieve 4 goals

• Unis must make sure the country had a compatant workforce
• unis must make sure there broadly educated
• it has an impact on the culture

Question 8

What was the Open University

Answer 8

Established in 1964 it ensured that people of any age who had missed out on higher education could become qlafied