Hadow (1926)

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Preliminary pages Membership, Analysis, Preface, Introduction
Chapter 1 Development of post-primary education in England and Wales 1800-1918
Chapter 2 The facts of the present situation
Chapter 3 The lines of advance
Chapter 4 Curricula for Modern Schools and Senior Classes
Chapter 5 The place of 'bias' in the curriculum of Modern Schools and Senior Classes
Chapter 6 The staffing and equipment of Modern Schools and Senior Classes
Chapter 7 The admission of children to Modern Schools and Senior Schools
Chapter 8 The lengthening of school life
Chapter 9 The question of a leaving examination
Chapter 10 Administrative problems
Chapter 11 Conclusions and recommendations; Notes of reservation
Chapter 12 Suggestions on the curriculum in Modern Schools and Senior Classes
Appendix I List of witnesses
Appendix II Notes on nomenclature
Appendix III Statistics relating to Chapter 2(ii)
Appendix IV Post-primary education abroad
Appendix V List of publications
Index

Notes on the text

The full text of the report (including the Appendices) is online.

In the printed version, the 'Suggestions on the curriculum' follow Chapter 11 but don't have a chapter number of their own. For this web version I have called them Chapter 12.

Since there aren't pages as such in this web version, footnotes have been collected together (and renumbered) at the end of each chapter.

I've modernised the punctuation (so that, for example, " secondary " is shown as 'secondary' and Mr. W.H. Webbe C.B.E. appears as Mr WH Webbe CBE) and I've updated a handful of spellings (show instead of shew, timetable instead of time-table, today instead of to-day etc). I have tried to rationalise some of the more obvious inconsistencies in the use of capital letters. (It is not unusual to find 'Central Schools' in one line, 'Central schools' in the next, and 'central Schools' a few lines further on).

I've added explanations to a few archaic words which are no longer in common use.

Anything added by way of explanation is shown [in square brackets].

Every web page includes chapter links (as in the left hand column on this page) and there are links to the next and previous chapters at the bottom of each page.

I have proof-read and spell-checked the text, but if you spot any errors I'd be grateful if you'd email me.

Other than the above, what you see here is what appeared in the original print version of the report.

For a summary of this report, see my article The Hadow Reports: an introduction.