100 years of Education-Tilka

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  • The TES was founded

    The TES was founded
    A now digital education company that supports teachers was founded. It was then entered into the Times as a free monthly.
  • Examinations Recommended at age 16

    The Consultive Comittee on Examinations in Secondary Schools advises that people take public exams at 16.
  • Teachers campaign for a salary scale

    The National Union of Teachers campaigns for a national salary scale.
  • School gets cheaper

    There are no longer fees for Elementary Education.
  • State scholarships at universities

    State scholorships to universities are introduced
  • Grammar Schools open to all

  • Planning for the future

    A five-year plan is launched to train 96,000 teachers, 60,000 of them women, to reduce secondary classes to 30 and primary to 40 by 1951
  • Projectors

    Projectors are introduced to schools.
  • Certificate of Secondary Education

    Certificate of Secondary Education is proposed
  • A hiccup in education

    Strikes during the “winter of discontent” cause some school closures and 280 million is cut from education.
  • Computers

    The Government launchs a program to put a computer in every school.
  • The Children Act

    The Children Act - the legislative part of Every Child Matters - is designed to get education and social services working more closely together.
  • Technology

    Technology
    Technology is used to help with educating students more and more evry day. There is a vast variety of different devices and websites to help with learning.