[英语学习]英语国家概况 英国教育.ppt

Grammar schools The oldest schools in the UK (Shakespeare) Reserved for students who got high marks in the Eleven Plus examination or selected by other means Concerned with the business of getting ready for the examinations Some are academically among the best schools in England. Direct grant grammar school A direct grant grammar school was a selective secondary school in England and Wales between 1945 and 1976 funded partly by the state and partly through private fees. One quarter of the places in these schools were directly funded by central government with the rest attracting fees, some paid by the Local Education Authority and some by private pupils. On average they received just over half of their income from the state. Direct grant grammar school The status was introduced by the Education Act 1944 as a modification of an existing direct grant scheme to privately endowed schools. There were 179 direct grant grammar schools, which together with over 1200 grammar schools maintained by local authorities formed the most academic tier of the Tripartite System. They varied greatly in size and composition, but on average achieved higher academic results than either maintained grammar schools or independent schools. When state secondary education was reorganised on comprehensive lines in the 1970s, the direct grant was phased out and the schools required to choose between becoming maintained comprehensive schools or fully independent schools. Forty-five schools, almost all Roman Catholic, joined the state system, and a few closed. The rest (including all the secular schools) became independent, and mostly remain as highly selective independent schools. the Tripartite System The Tripartite System /tra?`pɑ?ta?t/ was the arrangement of state funded secondary education between 1944 and the 1970s in England and Wales, and from 1947 to 2009 in Northern Ireland. It was an administrative implementation of the Education Act 1944 and the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1947.