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Simmons, Robin – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2021
This paper revisits the Macfarlane Report of 1980, the first draft of which recommended the dissolution of school sixth forms, sixth form colleges and other providers of post-compulsory education and training, and the establishment of a national system of tertiary colleges across England -- a programme of reform which would effectively have…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Comprehensive Programs, Foreign Countries
Hyslop-Margison, Emery J. – 1999
Early in the 20th century, vocational education was a concern of educators in the United States as schools struggled to meet labor force needs during the shift from an agrarian to an industrial economic base. A 1914 Congress-authorized commission studied whether federal aid to vocational education was warranted. Charles Prosser, a student of…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational History