The 1902 Balfour Act to the 1926 Hadow Report
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- 1902 Balfour Act - 1926 Hadow Report
- The Balfour Education Act (1902)
- legislated development of secondary and grammar schools
- Free place system
- For few gifted but poor children, scholarships enabling them to attend grammar schools
- Government finally acknowledging class divide
- For few gifted but poor children, scholarships enabling them to attend grammar schools
- replaced school boards with LEAs
- LEA = Local Education Authority
- result of the explansion of USA and Europe
- Put pressure on UK
- Elementary Code (1904)
- stressed conduct and discipline
- Only had a minor emphasis on subject knowledge
- stressed conduct and discipline
- World War One (1914 - 1918)
- Lead to Fisher Act
- Hightened many acute problems in existance already
- Strained development of education
- due to economic circumstances following war.
- The Fisher Act (1918)
- rasied school leaving age to 14
- included provision of medical inspections in school
- made employing children under 12 illegal
- Hadow Report (1926)
- made 38 recommendations
- suggested new form of leaving exam should be developed
- suggested education should be split into 2 parts
- The Education Act (1906)
- gave local authorities power to provide free school meals
- rsponse to high infant mortality
- and too many young men being deemed unfit for service in Boer War
- Interdepartmental committe found that 1 third of children malnourished in 1903
- and too many young men being deemed unfit for service in Boer War
- The Balfour Education Act (1902)
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