Monday, 30 May 2016

I said I wanted to be a 'lady detective'

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I passed my 11+ (1947) but failed the oral examination because I said I wanted to be a 'lady detective', so instead of going to Hast...
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Saturday, 17 October 2015

Secondary Education Up North

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"S econdary  e ducation in the northern industrial town I grew up in was aimed at producing chemical workers for ICI.  The town ...
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Tuesday, 28 April 2015

"High time to lay it down"

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My Sec Mod experience is passing its 50th anniversary - high time to lay it down & throw off the feelings I still have about it.  I ...
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Sunday, 1 June 2014

I often feel I am "looking in"

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I have no memories of one specific 11+ exam, but recollections of a variety of 'tests' in that last year of primary school (1965/66)...
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Wednesday, 26 March 2014

I Never Knew Why

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"I recently celebrated my 69th birthday and have been reflecting on my life in the form of a scrapbook; writing about my upbringing, s...
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Friday, 20 December 2013

"we were destined for the jam factory"

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"I adored my Primary School, the female headteacher, was a Cambridge MA, who had been Steiner trained. My mother was better educated a...
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Sunday, 13 October 2013

Half our Future? Secondary Modern Schools and the Newsom Report - fifty years on

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Professor Gary McCulloch is Head of Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Institute of Education, University of Lo...
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