By the 1880s education was compulsory for children aged 5 to 10, with the school leaving age progressively raised since then, most recently to 18 in 2015. 776 alcuin established a school at york 871 alfred became king of wessex 990s ælfric, schoolmaster at cerne, wrote educational works. When did it become compulsory to go to school in the uk This was known as payments by results
The forster act / elementary education act of 1870 required schooling to be provided at primary age in areas with inadequate provisions Section 74 of the act gave school boards the power to make attendance compulsory between the ages of 5 and 13. Education for all children became compulsory from 1876 but parents still had to pay This was not a popular decision because for many parents, this was a double hit on the finances Not only did they lose the child’s work wages but they then had to pay for the child to go to school. When was compulsory education introduced in the uk
The industrial revolution brought the first steps towards compulsory education, while the butler act of 1944 laid the foundation for the modern primary and secondary education system. On november 29th, 1870, the elementary education act passed into law We’ve tended to call landmark education acts in the uk after the education ministers who put them through, and this one is popularly called the foster act, just as later ones were the butler act of 1944 and the baker act of 1988. Education was compulsory up to the age of 15 This act introduced the tripartite system (grammar schools, secondary modern schools, secondary technical schools)
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