How World War II changed the education system
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- čas přidán 8. 05. 2020
- Shared hardships of war united people across the UK, leading to calls for a more progressive society. Conservative statesman Rab Butler seized the moment and set the wheels in motion for the Education Act 1944, which was enacted straight after the war and transformed schooling in the UK - among other things, by making secondary schooling free for everyone.
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I would like to ask the difference of special diplomas and bachelor degree during the 1970s compared to the present time?
World War 2 had quickly demonstrated the UK's need for a workforce with much higher educational standards than the pre-war Board of Education was capable of delivering----because, as the video states, 80% of the country's pupils were leaving school at the age of 14. Wartime demanded high-skilled Service personnel like pilots, navigators, marine engineers, radar operators, linguists, surgeons etc. Civilians were needed in wartime industry which was producing highly technical equipment: marine turbines, jet engines, centimetre radar etc.
Industrial-scale IQ testing of male and female conscripts was rushed in by the Armed Forces to identify bright people. The testing quickly showed that there was a vast pool of bright people---who had left school at 14---who needed to be educated to fill jobs in highly-skilled war work.
Bright, educated people improved the war effort, and would improve the post-war reconstruction of the country. Butler was well aware of this: the gain to the wartime economy needed to continue into the post-war economy. The 1944 Education Act would permanently embed a more meritocratic culture into state schools.
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