Education

The age remained at 14 until after WWII.

Recommended raising the school leaving age to 15.

It also recommended the setting up of 3 different schools after 15:  

Secondary (Grammar) Schools, Junior Technical Schools and Central (Modern)Schools.                                              

These would provide an education that was suited to the students' ability and aptitudes.

Made similar recommendations to the Hadow Report, but they were all ignored.

Only 1 adolescent in 5 received any secondary education.

Access to universities was very limited.

Secondary schools, supported by public funds, sent only 6 pupils in every 100 to a university. 

There were 5 1/2 million children in elementary schools.

Over 600,000 in some form of secondary schools.

There were 30,000 undergraduates in universities, some in new 'civic' universities which were just beginning to develop.

Out of every 1,000 children at an elementary school, only 4 reached a university.

Less than 1 in 1,000 reached Oxbridge.

A third of those entering universities came from grant-aided schools.