W.S. Education for women
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- W.S and Education
- Unit 8
- LAWS:
- Forster's Act (1870)
- Sufficient amount of elementary public schools for ALL children in every school district
- Grants available for those of poorer families
- Mundella's Act (1880)
- Compulsory for ALL children between 5-10 (1880) to attend school for FREE (1881)
- Balfour's Act (1902)
- Set up 328 county council education authorities to REPLACE school boards
- Large enough to build and maintain elementary AND secondary schools
- 1907 - 25% of place to secondary school were FREE to clever, poor children
- Allowed the poorest children to reach their full potential
- Set up 328 county council education authorities to REPLACE school boards
- Fisher's Act (1918)
- Raised the school leaving age to 13
- Forster's Act (1870)
- FRANCES BUSS
- Improve education of GIRLS OF LOWER CLASSES
- Faced humiliation to seek financial aid
- North London Collegiate School for Ladies & Camden School
- ENDOWED Schools = Scholarships or reduced fees to clever girls of poor families
- 1863: Helped to campaign to allow girls to sit exams (granted unofficially
- 1867: ALL exams officially OPEN TO GIRLS
- DOROTHEA BEALE
- Improved education of privileged girls
- Cheltenham = private boarding school
- Catered for the socially elite in society
- Accommodated for 1000 girls and had an INTERNATIONAL reputation
- Headmistress for 48 years
- EXPANDED the curriculum for girls
- Preserve modesty but 'cultivate a girls' intellectual powers'
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