ABSTRACT
The Education Act of 1944 launched an unprecedented experiment in the history of education in the UK. This book is a brief survey of the routes by which compulsory free secondary education was arrived at, as well as an examination of the position in 1949 and suggestions for the future.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |109 pages
Evolution
chapter |29 pages
Nineteenth-century gropings
chapter |30 pages
Free places
chapter |25 pages
“A second stage”
chapter |25 pages
Secondary status
part |65 pages
Some Outstanding Problems
chapter |6 pages
A new concept
chapter |13 pages
Purpose and objectives
chapter |7 pages
Age of entry
chapter |14 pages
Organisation
chapter |15 pages
Courses and curricula
chapter |10 pages
Co-education and boarding
part |39 pages
Suggestions for Advance
