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From HORSA Huts to ROSLA Blocks: The School Leaving Age and the School Building Programme in England, 1943-1972
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Cowan, Steven; McCulloch, Gary; Woodin, Tom – History of Education, 2012
This paper examines the connections between the school building programme in England and the raising of the school leaving age (ROSLA) from 14 to 15 in 1947 and then to 16 in 1972. These two major developments were intended to help to ensure the realisation of "secondary education for all" in the postwar period. The combination led in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, Age, Secondary Education
Sensing the Realities of English Middle-Class Education: James Bryce and the Schools Inquiry Commission, 1865-1868
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McCulloch, Gary – History of Education, 2011
This paper explores the contribution of James Bryce as an Assistant Commissioner to the Taunton Commission from 1865 to 1868. It highlights his criticisms of the English middle class and of middle-class education represented in the endowed grammar schools of Lancashire, England. These criticisms were based partly on finely detailed observation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Educational History, Secondary Education
Cyril Norwood and the Ideal of Secondary Education. Secondary Education in a Changing World
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McCulloch, Gary – Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Tracing the life of Sir Cyril Norwood, one of England's most prominent and influential educators, this book investigates the historical development of secondary education in England and Wales during the early twentieth century. During this time, an enduring ideal of secondary education associated with Sir Cyril Norwood became dominant. This was…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Public Schools, Educational Philosophy, Secondary Education