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The 1940s. Following World War II, there was a boom in the birth rate and an increase in the number of migrants arriving in Australia. Canberra’s development accelerated with the expansion of suburbs and their associated services. As a result, the School’s student population increased. Students pose under the CCEGGS sign in 1946. The 1950s.
I’m going to focus on what’s often considered to be the age of the grammar school, but which is better remembered as the age of the secondary modern: the years between 1948, when the 1944 Education Act made secondary education free and compulsory for all children aged between eleven and fifteen, and the late 1960s.
From those humble beginnings, Canberra Girls Grammar became and continues to be the home of courageous and brave-hearted children and young women. Students of St Gabriel's School in 1929. *Banner photo: An aerial view of the School in 1960.
- What Changed in 1944
- Access Did Not Get Fairer
- Why It Did Not Boost Social Mobility
The 1944 Act was the culmination of long-term aspirations of Boards of Education in England and Wales to open secondary educational opportunities to all social classes on equal terms. For decades prior to 1944, grammar schools had already formed an important part of secondary education, but there were significant structural impediments to achieving...
Our research examined whether or not the 1944 Act made a difference to children who would have been disadvantaged in the earlier era because their parents would be unlikely to be able to pay the required secondary school fees. We compared the chances of gaining a grammar school place among boys and girls with managerial or professional fathers comp...
Leading observersin the 1950s noted that poorer working class families were worried that their children would have to forego earnings if they remained longer in secondary education. They were also worried about inadequate maintenance grants. Also, some families did not want their children to enter the sort of occupations typically linked to grammar...
Henrietta Barnett School is a grammar school for girls with academy status. A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented selective secondary school.
Nestled in the picturesque foothills of Red Hill, Canberra Girls Grammar School (CGGS) will soon celebrate a century of inspired learning, where young people have never stopped believing that anything is possible.
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Canberra Grammar School is a co-educational, independent, day and boarding school located in Red Hill, a suburb of Canberra, the capital of Australia. The school is affiliated with the Anglican Church of Australia and provides an education from preschool to Year 12 for boys and girls.
