Comparative Education Project

COMPARATIVE
EDUCATION
PRESENTATION LECTURE
ENGLAND
Carla Antoine

History 600-1300
 600-1800 Beginnings
 597 St Augustine arrived in England.
 598 First grammar school established at Canterbury.
 600s More grammar schools established at Dorchester, Winchester, Hexham,
Malmesbury, Lichfield, Hereford and Worcester.
 776 Alcuin established school at York.
 1016 Canute became king of England: concerned about the education of poor boys.
 1066 Norman invasion: French replaced English as vernacular medium for teaching
Latin.
 1096 Oxford: evidence of teaching.
 1209 Cambridge: scholars arrived from Oxford.
 1249 Oxford: University College established, followed by Balliol 1260, Merton 1264.

History 1300-1800
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 1384 Grammar school opened at Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire: first chantry school.
 1382 Winchester founded: independent school.
 1540 Dissolution of the monasteries.
 1541 Canterbury grammar school refounded.
 1700 Charity Schools for the poor.
 1760s Thomas Braidwood's Academy for the Deaf and Dumb opened in
Edinburgh.
 1791 School of Instruction for the Indigent Blind established in Liverpool.
 1799 School of industry opened at Kendal.

History 1800-1860
 1807 Parochial Schools Bill: made provision for the education of 'the labouring classes'.
1807 Mill Hill School: founded by Congregationalists.
1811 National Society: CE organisation aimed to provide a school in every parish.
1814 British and Foreign School Society: founded by liberal Anglicans, Roman
1825 Universities Act 1825: behaviour of Oxbridge students.
1837 Normal School of Design established in London.
1839 Education Department established: Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth appointed as first
Permanent Secretary.
1840 Grammar Schools Act 1840: allowed endowment funds to be spent on modern and commercial subjects.
1841 Five School Sites Acts passed between 1841 and 1852 facilitated the purchase of land for school buildings and allowed for 'Parliamentary Grants for the

References: 1689 Map of England and Wales. (2006). Retrieved from http://www.atozmapsonline.com.ezproxy.liberty.edu:2048/a- z_country_historic_3.php?SKU=CUNKI-1649-ANT Gillard, D. (2015). Education in England - Timeline. Educationengland.org.uk. Retrieved 28 June 2015, from http://www.educationengland.org.uk/history/timeline.html