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Direct linkGristy, Cath; Letherby, Gayle; Watkins, Ruth – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2020
This paper explores the impact of selection by ability in schooling systems on individual lives. It draws on narratives collected with a group of 18 people (accessed through a local U3A group) who were at school in Britain in a period from the 1940s through to the 1960s. This period saw significant changes in society and to schooling following the…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Social Mobility, Foreign Countries, Age Groups
Phillips, David, Ed. – 2000
Little current research focuses on the whole educational systems of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Chapter 1, "The Educational Systems of the United Kingdom," points to shared cultural influences, broadly similar policy aims, and political, functional, and cultural interdependence to explain relatively modest…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Cultural Differences, Educational Change, Educational Policy
