Department for Education and Skills

The Girls' Public Day School Company was founded in London by the National Union (Women's Education Union) to establish schools for girls.

Emily Jones , the first woman inspector in the BritishDepartment of Education , was appointed Directress of Needlework.

The national Board of Education was established in Britain.

The BritishEducation Department introduced the principle of limiting class size to sixty for elementary schools receiving grants.

Balfour 's Education Act was passed; it dissolved the School Boards and replaced them with Local Education Authorities , which were empowered to provide secondary education.

Maude Lawrence was appointed to the BritishBoard of Education as Chief Woman Inspector, a newly-created post.

The Board of Education began to award local education authorities grants to build and maintain teacher training colleges.

The bursary system of teacher training was introduced; this meant that students educated by the Board of Education to age sixteen would receive grants to further their secondary education in preparation for a teacher training...

A Board of Education circular stipulated that school children should be hired for work only when no adult man or woman could fill the position.

The University Grants Committee (UGC) was established to oversee the small grant which the British government was now making to some institutions of higher education.

The Ministry of Education instituted a scheme of state studentships: grants for university education based on the student's results in Higher School Certificate (including special scholarship papers).

The British Government issued an evacuation notice to be carried out within twenty-four hours; within three days, in fact, a million and a half children, pregnant women, and the blind were moved from their urban...

Butler 's Education Act established the Ministry of Education and raised the school leaving age for both boys and girls to fifteen.

Butler 's Education Act established the Ministry of Education and raised the school leaving age for both boys and girls to fifteen.

The Roberts Report advised the establishment under the auspices of what became the Department of Education and Science an efficient and comprehensive free public library system serving all British citizens.