11. Small wonder that there was little time or taste for theorizing about ideal forms of secondary education. 12. The medical school and secondary education were randomly changed so that shortlisting was not influenced by attendance at a particular school or university. 13. This will give all pupils the benefit of five complete years of secondary education. 14. When I write about secondary education, then, in the following pages, I shall have in mind comprehensive schools. 15. Examinations for the GCSE are taken after about five years of secondary education. 16. The vast expansion in secondary education is putting an enormous strain on the system. 17. This was interpreted variously but making secondary education free, providing better facilities and raising the school leaving age were seen as the most obvious means to that end. 18. They also saw the best means of placing children in secondary education as tests of ability, usually described as intelligence tests. 19. In particular they battled over the key question for secondary education -- the age of transfer and the nature of secondary school organisation. 20. At the same time existing children of eleven to fourteen had to be assessed for their placing in secondary education. |