ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses that how English law has dealt with educational conflict. It involves a survey of the many facets of education in this country, ranging from nursery to higher education. Higher education has expanded greatly and has become more sophisticated since the days of the 1944 Act. The Robbins Report 1963 played a major part in this expansion. There are now several types of institution offering degree courses - colleges of higher education, over 30 polytechnics 46 universities and the hybrid "polyversities". The simplicity of the binary system of higher education has been complicated by the growth of colleges of higher education offering degree courses. Education law, like most aspects of English law, is a mixture of statutes created by Parliament and case law formulated by the courts. The case of nursery education is just one specific example of how the linguistic uncertainties contained in the Act have promoted legal disputes.