EDUCATION IN BRITAIN
BIG CHANGES PROPOSED (British Ofiickil Wireless.) (9 a.m.) RUGBY, April 11. Mr. J. Chuter Ecle, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, speaking at a conference on post-war education, said -that it was proposed that, at the ago of 11 years every child should proceed without examination to a secondary school. “We want to educate the child for life, not for examination,” he said. The Committee on Post-War Agricultural Education proposes . big changes in the present system. The committee recommends raising the school leaving age to 15 years and a system of compulsory continuation of education grants to universities to provide a practical course for farmers and a degree course for teachers and advisory officers.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21067, 12 April 1943, Page 4
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