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The Early History Of Education In Britain

The history of education in Britain can be traced back to the Anglo-Saxon settlement of England, or even back to the Roman occupation. In the Middle Ages schools were established to teach Latin grammar, while apprenticeship was the most important way to enter practical occupations. 2 colleges were established: the College of Oxford, followed by the College of Cambridge. A reformed system of "free grammar faculties" was established in the reign of Edward VI of England.

In the 19th century the Church of Britain was responsible for most faculties until the founding of free, mandatory education towards the end of that century. School College London was established, followed by King's College London; the two colleges forming the University of London. Durham College was also established in the early 19th century. Towards the end of the century the "redbrick" universities were founded.The 1944 Education Act established the Tripartite System of grammar schools, secondary modern faculties and Secondary Technical Faculties. The high-school leaving age was raised to 16 in 1972.

Early modern periodSo-called public faculties have an extensive record in England; some where set up before the 10th century. Many public schools were charitable foundations; however they steadily started charging fees. This was the first instance of school appeals in the UK.

In England the Tudor King Edward VI reorganised grammar faculties or instituted new ones so that there had been a state system of "free grammar faculties" that were in theory open to all and offered free tuition to those who couldn't afford to pay costs. The majority of poor kids did not attend these schools since their labour was economically valuable to their families.

In 1564, the Statute of Artificers and Apprentices was passed to control and protect the tutelage system, forbidding anybody from practising a trade or craft without first serving a 7-year period as an apprentice to a skilled (though in practice Freemen's sons could barter shorter terms).

Following the Act of Uniformity in 1662, spiritual dissenters set up academies to cater for scholars who did not want to subscribe to the articles of the Church of Britain. A number of these 'dissenting academies ' still survive, the oldest being Bristol Baptist University. One or two Oxford Universities (Harris Manchester, Mansfield, and Regent's Park) are also descendents of this movement.

From 1692, 'parish ' apprenticeships under the Elizabethan Poor Law came to be utilized as a method of providing for poor, illegitimate and orphaned children of both sexes next to the regular system of talented apprenticeships, which tended to make provision for boys from slightly more rich backgrounds. These parish apprenticeships, which may be made with the agreement of 2 Justices of the Peace, supplied apprentices for jobs of lower status such as farm labouring, brickmaking and menial household service.

Till as late as the nineteenth century, all college fellows and many schoolmasters were expected or needed to be in holy orders. Schoolmistresses generally taught the 3 Rs (reading, writing and 'rithmetic) in dame faculties, charity colleges, or informal town colleges.

18th centuryIn the earlier years of the Industrial Revolution entrepreneurs started to fight the restrictions of the tutelage system,[4] and a legal ruling established the Statute of Apprentices did not apply to trades that were not in existence when it was passed in 1563, therefore excluding many new 18th century industries.

Robert Raikes instituted the Sunday College Movement, having inherited a publishing business from his dad and become proprietor of the Gloucester Journal in 1757. The movement started with a school for boys in the slums. Raikes had been involved with those locked up at the county Poor Law (part of the jail at that time) and saw that vice would be better stopped than cured. He saw schooling as the best intervention. The finest available time was Sun. as the boys were frequently working in the factories the other six days. The finest teachers, were lay folk. The textbook was the Bible, and the originally intended curriculum started with learning how to read and then moved. On to the catechism.

Raikes utilized the paper to publicize the faculties and bore most of the price tag in the early years. The movement started in July 1780 in the home of a Mrs. Meredith. Only boys attended, and she heard the teachings of the older boys who coached the more youthful. Later , girls also attended. Within 2 years, a few colleges opened in and around Gloucester. He revealed an account on November 3, 1783 of Sunday College in his paper, and later word of the work spread through the Gentleman's Magazine, and in 1784, a letter to the Arminian Mag.

The first schedule for the schools, as written by Raikes was "The youngsters were to come after 10 in the morning, and stay until 12; they were then to return home and return at one; and after reading a lesson, they were to be conducted to Church. After Church, they were to be employed in repeating the catechism until after five, and then dismissed, with an injunction to go home without making a noise."

There were disputes about the movement in the earlier years. The faculties were derisively called "Raikes ' Ragged School". Feedback raised included that it might weaken home based spiritual education, that it could be a desecration of the Sabbath, and that Christians shouldn't be employed on the Sabbath. "Sabbatarian disputes" in the 1790s led many Sunday schools to stop their teaching of writing.

Most colleges at this time concentrated on grammar instruction, which at that time was centered on the instruction of Latin and Greek. Many schools taught Latin and Greek to the exclusion of all of the other subjects.

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