ABSTRACT
The 1960s were a decade of much activity in education, new hopes, new plans from a stream of reports which covered areas of education from pre-schooling to higher education, maintained schools to fee-paying secondary schools. The TUCEC responded to all of these developments giving oral evidence to some, written evidence to many and commenting upon every one. There were four areas central to TUC education policy; nursery education, discouragement of streaming and promotion of comprehensive schooling, raising the school leaving age to 16 and opposition to fee-paying schools. These core themes were raised at every opportunity throughout the 1960s whether through evidence submitted to a Commission investigating some aspect of education, deputation to a minister of education, resolution passed at Congress and worked on locally by trades councils or by close co-operation with organisations pursuing similar aims.
