A01: 1944 Education Act

From 1944, education began to be shaped by the idea of ________ - that individuals should achieve their own status in their through their own _____________, rather than it being ______________ by their class background

Meritocracy

Efforts and abilities

Ascribed at birth

The 1944 Education Act brought in the __________, so called because children were to be ___________ to one of three different types of secondary school, supposedly according to their _____________

Tripartite system

Selected and allocated

Attitudes and abilities

These were to be identified by _____________, which was to be taken by every child ___________

The eleven plus exam

At age eleven

1) Grammar schools offered an academic curriculum and access to…

Non-manual jobs and higher education

They were for pupils with academic ability who ___________ and were mainly ________

Passed the 11+

Middle class

______________ offered a non-academic, ‘practical’ curriculum and access to ________________________. These pupils were mainly working class

Secondary modern schools

Manual work for pupils who failed the 11+

Technical schools existed only in few areas, so it was in practice…

More of a bipartite than a tripartite system