Katharina Grafmüller 
The Genesis of the British Education System [PDF ebook] 

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies – Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2, 7, University of Osnabrück, language: English, abstract: With this piece of work I want to explain the British School System. I will start with
a brief overview on the history of British schools from the medieval times and then
show the development of the modern education System from World War II until
now.
Talking of the development of the British Education System terms like ‘pendulum of
curricula control’ are often used as the state’s control on the school curriculum grew
and shrunk over the period from 1862 until 1988. I will try to describe the course
that this ‘pendulum’ took.
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