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The history of education in Wales from 1870 to 1939 covers the various types of education available in Wales from the Elementary Education Act 1870 until the start of the Second World War. Compulsory primary education was established early in the period and access to secondary and higher education was significantly expanded.
This article provides an overview of education in Wales from early childhood to university and adult skills.Largely state-funded and freely accessible at a primary and secondary level, education is compulsory for children in Wales between ages 5-16 years old.
The history of education in Wales spans from the period of Roman rule to the present day. Early forms of formal education were church or privately run and available to only a small segment of the population. In the 17th and 18th centuries significant efforts were made, mainly by charitable causes, to expand access to basic education.
The period between 1701 and 1870 saw an expansion in access to formal education in Wales, though schooling was not yet universal. During the 18th century, various philanthropic efforts were made to provide education to poorer children and sometimes adults—schools established by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), circulating schools, Sunday schools and endowed elementary ...
The history of education in Wales from 1939 to the present covers the various types of education available in Wales from the Second World War to the present day. This period has seen an expansion of secondary and higher education, as well as the development of a more distinctive Welsh education system.
In Wales, bilingualism and bi-literacy (in Welsh and English) is firmly on the education agenda too. The number of pupils choosing Welsh-medium education has seen a steady increase of 3% over the ...
The 1880 Education Act made five years the start of compulsory education across England and Wales. [12] Britain was unusual in the Western World in having that early a start to mandatory education. Many children as young as two or three years were also enrolled at school.
Primary education in Wales has a similar structure to primary education in England, but teaching of the Welsh language is compulsory and it is used as the medium of instruction in many schools. The introduction of the Foundation Phase for 3- to 7-year-olds is also creating increasing divergence between Wales and England.