Example sentences of "the 1944 education " in BNC.
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| 1 | These reforms will only achieve their objective if accompanied by the implementation of the 1944 Education Act provision for compulsory part- or full-time education or training up to the age of 18 . |
| 2 | The Hadow Report of 1926 , which dealt with the education of the adolescent , paved the way for the school-leaving age to be raised to fifteen and contemplated the possibility of secondary education for all , on the basis of the tripartite system accepted by the 1944 Education Act . |
| 3 | The new committee exemplified the intentions of the 1944 Education Act for closer co-operation , joint planning and participation in the organisation and provision of liberal adult education over which there was widespread anticipation of further expansion in the post-war period . |
| 4 | Following Tawney 's preface in 1947 , the National WEA organised a ‘ programme for action ’ to stimulate forward planning and new responses to the opportunities provided under the 1944 Education Act . |
| 5 | The 1944 Education Act had heralded a ‘ Golden Age ’ of teacher freedom , according to commentators . |
| 6 | Both of these ideals have after all been incorporated in legislation , the first in the 1944 Education Act , the second in that of l981 . |
| 7 | The very foundation of our modern system , the 1944 Education Act , discusses the education of ‘ the people ’ but effectively means the education of those between 5 and 16 years . |
| 8 | The Act 's 238 sections and 13 schedules make it almost twice as long as the 1944 Education Act and it is certainly comparable in significance . |
| 9 | The 1944 Education Act laid a responsibility on LEAs to monitor the work of their schools and this has been strengthened in the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 10 | The 1944 Education Act signalled the end of elementary education for children over 11 . |
| 11 | In recent years we have been witnessing an attempt to place more emphasis on the first two purposes of education to redress what is considered an imbalance in favour of the third in the three decades following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 12 | The 1944 Education Act made local education authorities responsible for providing education for all children according to their ‘ needs , aptitudes and abilities ’ . |
| 13 | Indeed , as far as secondary schools were concerned , the stranglehold exerted by central government over the curriculum was not relaxed until the 1944 Education Act for England and Wales and the corresponding Scottish legislation of 1945 . |
| 14 | The 1944 Education Act and after |
| 15 | The 1944 Education Act , in theory , was supposed to widen the educational chances of the working classes through the provision of free secondary education for all . |
| 16 | The 1944 Education Act claimed to eliminate such inequality of opportunity by making entry to grammar schools the result of an examination open to all via the competition of the ‘ 11-plus ’ . |
| 17 | Under the terms of the 1944 Education Act , the Governors opted for " Direct Grant " status , whereby the School received a grant direct from the Government in return for offering a quarter of the places ( either " free " or assisted ) for boys from the areas of adjacent Local Education Authorities . |
| 18 | According to the 1944 Education Act the Secretary of State has a duty to ‘ promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose … ’ , although effective control was , at the time of the Tyndale dispute , devolved to the LEAs . |
| 19 | The 1944 Education Act gave LEAs the right to inspect schools , indeed , some LEAs inherited inspectorates from the School Boards which preceded them . |
| 20 | In the Chelsea library , Clare read the 1944 Education Act , Section 8(2) ( 6 ) . |
| 21 | Under the 1944 Education Act they have had a duty to provide this for numerous categories of children : the blind , partially sighted , deaf , partially hearing , physically handicapped , delicate , maladjusted , epileptic , educationally subnormal , children with speech defects , and the autistic . |
| 22 | In some areas Acts lay down clear central powers of control — the 1944 Education Act , for example — but in others the main statutes merely indicate by a variable form of words that the Ministry or Secretary of State of the central department is in the position of ultimate authority and will provide a general overall guidance . |
| 23 | Hence , it is interesting that , while the historical account of social policy tended to stress a variety of significant contributions to policy , building constructively on the past — the 1911 National Insurance Act , the 1944 Education Act , the 1946 National Health Service Act — perhaps a key theme in modern writings on the policy process is the absence of rational forward planning but in its place a phenomenon that has been called ‘ disjointed incrementalism ’ . |
| 24 | In the educational sphere , for example , he points to the uniformity of local education authorities in adopting a tripartite system of secondary education following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 25 | Legislators in the 1944 Education Act looked upon nursery education in a positive light and indeed laid a duty on local education authorities to provide enough to enable any parent who wanted it to send their child to a nursery school . |
| 26 | One of the problems lay in the wording of section 61 of the 1944 Education Act which says that ‘ no fees shall be charged in respect of the education provided in any maintained school ’ . |
| 27 | Although the 1944 Education Act placed upon all local education authorities the statutory duty to provide adequate facilities for further education , defining further education as full-time or part-time education and leisure-time occupation for persons over compulsory school-leaving age , it made no reference to higher education as such . |
| 28 | As late as 1948 , John Newsom , in what R. A. Butler ( the sponsor of the 1944 Education Act ) , described as ‘ wise and humorous recommendations for girls ’ schools ' , favoured as separate a curriculum for girls — grounded in domestic subjects — as any advocated by early twentieth-century eugenicists . |
| 29 | The 1944 Education Act had avoided the issue of curriculum control by ambiguously dividing control of school curriculum between local authorities and governing bodies and ( reflecting the strength of the church lobby ) listing only religious education as a curriculum issue worthy of legislation . |
| 30 | From 1977 onwards the DES sent a series of circulars to LEAs asking how they were discharging their duties under the 1944 Education Act to monitor the curriculum in the schools . |