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- Sandfields in Port Talbot caused huge ripples when it opened as the first specially-built comprehensive in 1958.
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The first, purpose-built comprehensive in the North of England was Colne Valley High School near Huddersfield in 1956. These early comprehensives mostly modelled themselves, in terms of ethos, on the grammar school , with gown-wearing teachers conducting lessons in a very formal style.
For six years up to 1970 the expansion of comprehensive schools and the gradual weakening of the grammar schools was widely associated with Labour Party policy, at odds with Conservative opinion. Butj, in fact, the movement began long before Labour came into power and continued afterwards.
The 1944 Education Act set up a universal system of free, compulsory schooling from the age of five to 15. Schooling was provided by local authority and church schools.
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Jan 12, 1996 · In the ten years between 1965 and 1975, virtually all state secondary schools in Wales and Scotland went comprehensive. In England the figure was about 90 per cent. And the swing took place under Labour and Conservative governments, with the pace of change being quicker under the Tories.
Comprehensive school, in England, secondary school offering the curricula of a grammar school, a technical school, and a secondary modern school, with no division into separate compartments. The purpose of the comprehensive school is to democratize education, do away with early selection.
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The London School Plan of 1947 had made provision for a purpose-built, coeducational comprehensive school in Islington for up to 2,000 pupils.
Corelli College was built between 1951 and September 1954 and, when it opened as the Kidbrooke Comprehensive School for Girls, was the first purpose-built fully comprehensive school to open in London.
