Post-war Education in Britain

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 3, 4 January 1941, Page 4

Post-war Education in Britain

SWEEPING BRITISH PHANS (British Official Wireless.) Received Friday, 5.5 p.m. RUGBY, Jan. 2. Sweeping plans for education after the war were revealed by the President of the Board of Education at Oxford. Mr. Ramsbothani said the mistakes made after the last war would not be repeated. There would be changes in British social and economic conditions which would have a profound effect upon young people, particularly between the ages of 14 and 18. Now was the time to lay plans for the great and far-rcaehing reforms in post-primary education covering the years 11 to 19. Ho and ids advisers were giving deep and careful thought to this problem. As soon as possible after the war the 1936 Act to raise the school leaving age to 15 would be enforced. It was his personal belief that the ultimate goal was to adopt the minimum leaving uge of 16, but before this was possible adequate forms of education to suit the varying tasks and capacities of children must be devised. He did not support the demand for secondary education for all because forms of secondary education of sufficient variety and diversity did not exist. He believed we should provide and develop types of post-primary education on a less academic basis for a very large number of children and we must see that no question of prestige or fallacious distinction between the social and liberal types of education stood in the way of establishing parity between modern schools, grammar schools and technical high schools.