How far did educational opportunities widen in the years 1918-1945? Flashcards
P1
P2
P3
Improvements to secondary education
improvement’s to higher education
Limited by economic context
P1 evidence
- Fisher education act 1918
- Trevelyan education act 1936
- Butler Education act 1944
What recommendations of the fisher education act implement?
Lewis report recommendations
what did the lewis report recconment?
- School leaving age 14
- a new tier of ‘County Colleges’ to provide vocational training for school-leavers
- new two-tiered curriculum divided between ‘practical’ and ‘advanced’ instruction.
What did the fisher education mean for central gov?
for funding education (not LEAs)
Fisher education act impact on schools
- All tuition fees for elementary education scrapped
- free health checks for all school kids
- nursery for toddlers established
- Teachers salaries and pensions increased= improve standards
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What did the fisher education act mark?
watershed moment:
provision of education was now centrally funded
co-ordinated with the government taking full responsibility for widening access and improving standards.
What recommendations did the trevelyan act 1936
implement?
Hadow Report:
what were the recommendations of the Haddow report?
- leaving age 15
- central government funding to LEAs was increased to create more secondary school places.
what did the butler education act 1944 introduce?
- reforms to the existing system: a ‘tripartite’ system (grammer schools, secondary moderns and tech schools)
- secondary education was now to be free and compulsory up to the age of 15.
which act had a dramatic impact on access to secondary schooling?
butler act
how many children were there in school in 1947 and 1967?
1947-5.5 million
1967- 9.1 million
P2 evidence
- higher education became a higher priority for the government
- Government funding enabled more universities to be established
in 1918 uni had been the perserve of the what
elite
in what year where there a number of reforms had been
introduced which started the process of widening access and improving standards:
1945
how did the government increase applications to university from middle class and working class students?
increasing LEA funding
more uni places
how did funding for uni’s change by the 1950’s?
£1m to over £80m by the 1950s.
the gov introduced what for students from lower income backgrounds?
bursaries
by 1950 how had the total proportion
of university tuition paid by the student change?
1/3 to 1/8.
what did the gov provide for bright working class students:?
fully-funded route
what was the ’Recognised Students in Training’ scheme?
gave working class students grants to cover the cost of university,
teacher training after university.
what enabled more uni’s to be established? give exmaples of unis
Government funding
Reading (1926),
Nottingham,
Southampton,
Exeter (1948).
in 1918 how many uni studens were there
change in 1945
20,000
40,000
P3 evidence
- Economic context
- education slipped further down the political agenda- more pressing problems of unemployment and industrial decline
- inequalities in access to education:
