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Academies
the first five years educ28

Adonis, Andrew Blair's chief education adviser
inventor of the academies programme educ28

Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education
aims - changing educ09 educ10
history of educ09 educ13a
Oxfordshire - rewriting of, post 1988 educ13
Statutory Conference educ13a
Wintersgill, Barbara - advice to Oxfordshire working group educ13d

Appraisal
school policy for educ03

Assembly
see Collective worship

Assessment
effects on curriculum in 1988 Act educ07
NC's emphasis on what is easily measurable educ13f educ15
Westhill College's Attainment in RE (1989) educ09 educ13b

Assessment of Performance Unit (APU)
educ02

Baker, Kenneth Tory Secretary of State for Education 1986-89
parents - proposes greater power for educ02 educ26
National Curriculum - announces (1987) educ05; softens line on subject time allocations educ07

Bell, David Woodhead's successor as head of OFSTED
warns of 'two-tier curriculum' educ26

Bible see also Agreed Syllabus; Religious Education
story finder educ16
textual deconstruction educ11

Black Papers
Plowden - criticism of educ04
'progressive' methods and teachers - criticism of educ26

Blatch, Baroness
moral values in education educ18

Blunkett, David Labour Education Secretary 1997-2001
early pronouncements disappointing educ18 educ26
guarantees church schools continuing freedom educ22
pursues Tory policies educ26
puts private contractors in to run Hackney LEA educ20
announces academies programme educ28

Brighouse, Tim
Chief Education Officer educ01
National Curriculum - criticises imposition of educ02
RE - preface to Oxfordshire syllabus 1981 educ13a
faith schools - warns of dangers of educ22

Brockington WA
Chief Education Officer educ01

Bruner, Jerome
curriculum theory - influence on educ06
discovery - learning by educ15
Goldman - influence on educ09
Plowden - influence on educ09

Bullying
measures taken at Marston Middle School Oxford educ12

Burnham Committee
established 1919 to determine teacher salaries educ26

Butler RAB Tory Minister of Education 1940s
1944 Act educ26
McNair Committee educ26

Callaghan, Jim Labour Prime Minister 1976-79
Ruskin speech 1976 educ02 educ04 educ05 educ07 educ26

Charter schools
US model for Blair's academies educ28

Chief Education Officers (CEOs)
role of educ01
Brighouse, Tim educ01 educ02 educ13a educ22
Brockington, WA educ01
Clegg, Alec educ01
Sharp, Percival educ01

Christianity
assumed in 1944 Act educ09

City academies
see Academies

City Technology Colleges (CTCs)
money spent on educ08

Clarke, Charles Labour Education Secretary 2002-04
workforce remodelling educ26

Collective worship ('Assemblies')
head teachers - increased responsibility under 1988 Act educ08
Thought for the day - quotes for classroom assemblies educ17

Comprehensive schools
denigrated by Estelle Morris educ26

Corporal punishment
independent Christian schools seek right to beat children educ22

Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (CATE)
established 1983 educ26
primary schools - urges greater specialisation in educ06

Cowper-Temple clause (1870 Education Act)
non-denominational RE educ09

Creationism
bad science, bad religion, bad education educ23

Curriculum see also National Curriculum
child-centred education educ14 educ15
children's needs and interests educ13f educ15
core curriculum educ05
definitions of educ13f
Goldsmiths' Scheme for Interdisciplinary Enquiry educ06
humanity more important than reading and writing educ14
integrated curriculum educ06
Keele Integrated Studies Project educ06
Kilpatrick The Project Method (1918) educ13f educ15
models of curriculum design (content, objectives, process) educ13f educ14
rationalist view of knowledge educ15
'secret garden' educ07
teacher role in development of educ07 educ13f
utilitarianism educ15

Darwin, Charles
see Creationism

Dearing, Lord
church schools - 2001 report The Way Ahead on future of educ22

de Gruchy, Nigel former head of NASUWT
criticism of policies of 1960s and 70s educ18

DES Circulars
14/77 curriculum review educ05 educ07

DES publications
A Framework for the School Curriculum (1980) educ04
A View of the Curriculum (1980) educ04
Better Schools (1985) educ02 educ07

Dewey, John
child should organise own knowledge educ06

Discovery
as promoted by Plowden educ13f educ14

Donaldson, Margaret
Children's Minds (1978) educ13f

Durham Report (1970)
religious education educ10

Eccles, David Tory Minister of Education 1954-57, 1959-62
describes curriculum as 'secret garden' educ07

Education Acts
1870 educ02 educ09
1902 educ01 educ02 educ26
1921 educ01
1944 educ01 educ02 educ09; church schools educ22; religious clauses educ13a
1980 educ02 educ26
1986 educ01 educ02 educ26
1988 educ07 educ08; religious clauses educ09 educ10 educ13a educ26
1998 educ22 educ26
1994 educ26

Emmanuel College Gateshead City Academy
creationism taught as science educ23

Evolution
see Creationism

Faith schools see also Creationism, Religious Education
history and controversy educ22
Blair's obsession with educ29

General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE)
subject integration - encouragement of educ06

General Teaching Council
established 1998 educ26

Goldman, Ronald
Readiness for Religion (1965) educ09

Governors
role educ02; under New Labour educ18
Model Articles 1945 educ02

Great Debate see also Callaghan, Jim
educ02 educ07 educ26

Green Papers
1984 Parental Influence at School educ02

Hadow Reports
1931 Report - forerunner of Plowden educ04
summaries of all six Reports (1923, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1931, 1933) educ27

Head Teachers
effect of government initiatives on educ08
leadership and management educ03
role in relation to governors educ02; under New Labour educ18
seven principles for educ07a

Her Majesty's Inspectorate (HMI)
curriculum uniformity - warns against educ05
Primary Survey 1978 educ06

Hermeneutics
biblical textual deconstruction educ11

Hocking, William Ernest American Methodist layman
three approaches to other faiths educ10

Inner London Education Authority (ILEA)
RE syllabus 1984 educ09

Integrated day
educ06

Intelligent Design
see Creationism

James Report 1972
Teacher Education and Training educ26

Local Education Authorities (LEAs)
Agreed Syllabuses for RE - history of educ09
CEO - role of educ01
curriculum policy - role in formulating (1981) educ05
governors - relationship with educ02
Hackney - Blunkett puts private contractors in educ20

Local Government Act 1972
effect on LEAs educ01

Local Management of Schools (LMS)
head's increased responsibility educ08

Luxton-Wheatley Plan
secondary reorganisation in Gateshead educ01

Major, John Tory Prime Minister 1990-97
education policies educ26

Managers see Governors

McAvoy, Doug former General Secretary, NUT
tests - warns of malign effects of educ26

McNair Report (1944)
recruitment, supply and training of teachers educ26

Miliband, David former Labour Schools Minister
curriculum and tests - dismisses concerns about educ26

Morris, Estelle Labour Education Secretary 2001-02
comprehensive schools - denigrates them educ26
faith schools - unhappy about Blair's policy educ22

Moser Report (1999)
Improving Literacy and Numeracy: A Fresh Start educ26

National Curriculum
assessment procedures flawed educ15
children's needs and interests educ15
content based educ15
imposed educ02
staff time involved initially educ08
subject based educ06 educ14
teacher role in curriculum development undermined educ07
third version educ26
values - lack of emphasis on educ18

National Curriculum Council (NCC)
set up by 1988 Act educ07 educ26
Religious Education - a local curriculum framework (1991) educ13d

National Literacy Strategy
based on Moser Report educ26

National Society
church organisation running 19c elementary schools educ02

National Union of Teachers (NUT)
rejects workforce remodelling educ26

Neti-Neti Theatre Company
anti-bullying play Only Playing Miss educ12

OFSTED Office for Standards in Education
(privatised school inspection service)
proposed in 1988 Act, established in 1992 educ26

Oxford Certificate of Educational Achievement (OCEA)
staff time required for educ08

Patten, John Tory Education Secretary 1992-94
moral education educ18

Peer Counselling
as strategy to combat bullying educ12

Phenomenology
effects on RE educ09 educ13a
now largely discredited educ13f

Philosophy
Tory educational philosophy in the 1990s educ14 educ18

Piaget, Jean
Goldman - influence on educ09
Plowden - influence on educ09
Plowden - underpinning theories educ04

Plowden Report (1967)
Children and their Primary Schools
the full text of the Report and a series of articles about it can be found here.
criticisms of educ04
curriculum development - support for teacher role in educ07
discovery educ13f
RE - influence on educ09
summary educ04
teacher's role and freedom - importance of educ26

Policy see also Privatisation
Tory education policies in the 1990s educ14

Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)
devalues teacher professionalism educ06

Privatisation
Blunkett puts private contractors in to run Hackney LEA educ20
King's Manor school, Guildford educ20

Radical empiricism
called into question in RE educ13f

Record of Achievement (RoA)
staff time required for educ08

Religious Education (RE)
see also Agreed Syllabus, Creationism, Faith schools
aims, attainment targets (Oxfordshire working group 1991) educ13d
Assessment in Religious Education (Hampshire 1990) educ13c
Attainment in RE - some considerations for LEAs/SACREs (Westhill 1991)educ13d
Bible story finder educ16
biblical textual deconstruction educ11
FARE project (Forms of Assessment in RE) (Exeter 1990) educ13b
feminist hermeneutics educ11
in multicultural Britain educ10
new views of educ13a educ13f
purpose of educ21
religion and education - conflicting aims of educ21
religion and education - incompatibility educ22
RE in the Basic Curriculum (Suffolk 1990) educ13c
Religious Education - a local curriculum framework (NCC 1991) educ13d
sixth form RE (Oxfordshire suggestions) educ13c educ13e

Reports
Durham 1970 (religious education) educ10
Hadow 1923 (summary of) educ27
Hadow 1924 (summary of) educ27
Hadow 1926 (summary of) educ27
Hadow 1928 (summary of) educ27
Hadow 1931 pre-echoes of Plowden educ04 (summary of) educ27
Hadow 1933 (summary of) educ27
James 1972 Teacher Education and Training educ26
McNair 1944 (recruitment, supply and training of teachers) educ26
Moser 1999 Improving Literacy and Numeracy: A Fresh Start educ26
Plowden 1967 Children and their Primary Schools see Plowden Report 1967
Robbins 1963 Higher Education educ26
Spens 1938 (secondary education) educ23
Swann 1985 Education for All educ04
Taylor 1977 A New Partnership for Our Schools educ01 educ02

Robbins Report (1963)
Higher Education educ26

Robinson, John
Honest to God (1963) educ09

Ruskin Speech
see Callaghan, Jim; Great Debate

Schools Council
established 1964 educ26
abolished 1984 educ26
core curriculum - views on educ05

Schools Curriculum Development Committee (SCDC)
replaced Schools Council educ26

School Examinations and Assessment Council (SEAC)
set up by 1988 Act educ07

School Examinations Council (SEC)
replaced Schools Council educ26

Secret garden
David Eccles's description of curriculum educ07

Selection
see Comprehensive schools and Education in England

Sharp, Percival
Chief Education Officer educ01

Scopes, John
1925 trial for teaching evolution educ23

Scruton, Roger
Black Paper criticising Plowden educ04
on children's needs educ15

Spens Report (1938) secondary education
importance of RE educ23

Standing Advisory Councils for Religious Education (SACREs)
1944 Act empowered LEAs to set up educ09
composition and duties educ13a

Statutory Conference
conference convened to agree RE syllabus educ13a

Swann Report (1985)
Education for All educ04

Task Group on Assessment and Testing (TGAT)
views on assessment procedures in 1988 Act educ07

Taylor Report (1977)
A New Partnership for Our Schools educ01 educ02

Teachers see also Teacher Training Authority
curriculum - control of educ13f
Pay and Conditions Act (1991) educ26; abolished 1987 educ26
professionalism - history of and attacks on educ26
Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) undermined educ26
RE - personal commitment in teaching of educ10
selection, appraisal and development - school policy for educ03
supply teaching - account of actual experience educ24
values education - lack of in training educ18
workforce remodelling educ26

Teacher Training Authority (TTA)
established by 1994 Act educ26
subsumed into new Training and Development Agency for Schools 2005 educ26

Technical and Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI)
educ01 educ26

Thatcher, Margaret Tory Prime Minister 1979-90
assessment - argues for simple tests in 1988 Act educ07
curriculum - takes control of educ26
LEAs - attitude to educ01

'Three Wise Men' Robin Alexander, Chris Woodhead and Jim Rose
Curriculum Organisation and Classroom Practice in Primary Schools: a discussion paper educ14

Values
debate on educ18
Tory values in practice educ18

Vardy, Sir Peter
millionaire sponsor of creationist city academies educ23

Westhill College
Attainment in RE (1989) educ09
Memorandum Attainment in RE - some considerations for LEAs/SACREs (1991) educ13d

White Papers government documents preceding Acts of Parliament
Choice and Diversity (1993 Education Act) educ18
Educational Reconstruction (1994 Education Act) educ13a
Excellence in Schools (1998 School Standards and Framework Act) educ18
Better Schools (1985 based on 1984 Green Paper Parental Influence at School) educ26

Williams, Derrick
CEO, Avon educ01

William Tyndale affair
affected relations between schools and LEAs educ01
ammunition for critics of Plowden educ04
public concern about educ02
teacher accountability - raised concerns about educ26

Willis, Phil Liberal Democrat education spokesman
criticism of faith schools educ22

Wintersgill, Barbara member, NCC
advice to Oxfordshire Agreed Syllabus working group educ13d

Woodhead, Chris
first head of OFSTED educ26
see also Education in England

Workforce remodelling
unions divided over educ26

Wragg, Ted Professor of Education, Exeter University, died 2005
warns of increasing politicisation of education educ26