Secondary technical school

Secondary technical schools, referred to colloquially as secondary techs or simply techs, were a type of secondary school in England and Wales that existed in the mid-20th century under the Tripartite System of education. For various reasons few were built, and their main interest is on a theoretical level. The Education Act 1944 (also known as the Butler Education Act after its creator, Rab Butler), which applied only to England and Wales, promised a secondary schooling system with three tiers. In addition to grammar schools and secondary modern schools, the government intended there to be a series of secondary technical schools which would teach mechanical, scientific and engineering skills to serve industry and science. The 1944 Act (the Butler Act) replaced all previous education law, removed the Board of Education and replaced it with the Ministry of Education. It established that all maintained schooling was to be free. Secondary state schools were to be organised on a three-tier model: grammar (entrance based on ability with the option of an 11-plus), technical schools and secondary moderns, with further education delivered through county colleges for school-leavers up to 18 years of age. This reasoning had been based on the 1943 Norwood Report, the experiences gained in the 1930s and the skills shortages encountered during the ongoing war. "the various kinds of technical schools, which were not instituted to satisfy the intellectual needs of an arbitrarily assumed group of children, but to prepare boys and girls for taking up certain crafts – engineering, agriculture and the like. Nevertheless it is usual to think of the engineer or other craftsman as possessing a particular set of interests or aptitudes by virtue of which he becomes a successful engineer or whatever he may become". Local authorities were given a deal of freedom on how this was to be implemented, and while it was easy to create two branches from existing building stock, technical schools often had to be built afresh.

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Secondary modern school

A secondary modern school is a type of secondary school that existed throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland from 1944 until the 1970s under the Tripartite System. Schools of this type continue in Northern Ireland, where they are usually referred to as secondary schools, and in areas of England, such as Buckinghamshire (where they are referred to as community schools), Lincolnshire and Wirral, (where they are called high schools).

Secondary technical school

Eleven-plus

Le eleven-plus ou 11-plus est un examen passé par une partie des élèves en Angleterre et en Irlande du Nord à la fin de l'école primaire, qui détermine l'admissibilité en grammar school ou dans les autres établissements du secondaire qui pratiquent la sélection académique. Lors de sa création, en 1944, le eleven-plus était passé par tous les élèves d'Angleterre et du pays de Galles, ainsi que d'Irlande du Nord à partir de 1947, à la fin de l'école primaire, soit à l'âge de 11 ans (d'où son nom).