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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.
- 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...
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.
Canberra Girls Grammar School was built on a foundation of determination, resilience and visionary thinking. In 1926, at the request of Bishop Lewis Bost….
The CGGS Archives were established in 1987 to serve the history and research needs of Canberra's oldest independent school. The Archives see the assembly and preservation of records relating to the School and its associated bodies.
The CGGS Archives were established in 1987 to serve the needs of Canberra’s oldest independent school. The Archives collects and preserves records relating to the School and its associated bodies. The collection consists of the School’s official records from 1926, photographic and uniform collections and school memorabilia.
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Jun 15, 2019 · Some of our most famous faces have emerged from a grammar school such as Sir David Attenborough, Boris Johnson and Benedict Cumberbatch. What is a Grammar School? A grammar school is a state secondary school that selects their pupils based on whether they pass an exam, known as the 11 plus.
