Ah, how wonderful it is to have the cold light of data. Mike Hollinshead
has also written about this time. Hello Mike are you there? Hope the
book is going well. I can hardly wait to buy it.
REH
Tor Forde wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think that Keith Hudson wrote that the educational standard of England
> was better about 1870 than today.
> I looked up some numbers about this in a history book called "Ruling
> Britannia" written by Glyn Williams & John Ramsden, published by Longman
> in 1990.
> >From page 280: "In 1869 about 30 per cent of children were at schools
> receiving government grants and inspected by government officers to
> ensure efficiency, about 23 per cent were at schools without grants and
> inspection, and the rest were not at school at all - mainly in the
> expanding cities. Most schools were run by voluntary bodies, mainly
> those associated with the Church of England."
>
> In the long run it was the secularised board schools, paid by the
> government, which gave all English children the opportunity to attend
> school.
>
> "Overall educational provision improved and illiteracy which had been a
> major problem now declined." (page 281)
>
> TABLE 15.1 Growth in Educational Provisions
>
> Year Government Expenditure Numbers in Inspected Schools
> 1870 �1.6 m. 1.7 m.
> 1880 �4.0 m. 3.6 m.
> 1890 �5.8 m. 4.7 m.
> 1900 �12.2 m. 5.7 m.
>
> It is evident that it was the state which built an educational system in
> England which reached the whole population. And it is really bad if it
> is breaking down. But I guess that the situation today is still better
> than back in 1870, when illiteracy was a major problem.
>
> Teachers' wages have rather low in Norway for some years now, and few
> students have gone to the Teachers Training Colleges, but this year the
> government began a four year escalating plan to improve the wages of
> primary school teachers, and this year the wages grew by 30.000
> Norwegian kroner, that is about 4.000 US dollars.
>
>
> --
> All the best
> Tor F�rde
> http://home.sol.no/~torforde/
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