Title: Tripartite System of education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - Wikipedia
Headings: Tripartite System of education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Tripartite System of education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Contents
A new design for secondary education
Origins
The Butler Act
Design of the system
The system in operation
Implementation
The 11-plus
Examination systems and relationship to further education
Decline
The fall of the meritocracy
Abolition in England and Wales
Aftermath and legacy
Survival of the system in Northern Ireland
Debates
See also
References
Bibliography
External links

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Tripartite System of education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
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Grammar school, technical school, and secondary modern school
For the tripartite education system in Germany, see Education in Germany. For the system of schools divided by age, see Three-tier education. For the grammatical case system, see Tripartite language. The Tripartite System was the arrangement of state-funded secondary education between 1945 and the 1970s in England and Wales, and from 1947 to 2009 in Northern Ireland. It was an administrative implementation of the Education Act 1944 and the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1947. State-funded secondary education was to be arranged into a structure containing three types of school, namely: grammar school, secondary technical school (sometimes described as "Technical Grammar", or "Technical High" schools) and secondary modern school. Not all education authorities implemented the tripartite system; many maintained only two types of secondary school, the grammar and the secondary modern. Pupils were allocated to their respective types of school according to their performance in the 11-plus examination.