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Education Act

United Kingdom [1902]
Also known as: Balfour Act

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effect on British education

  • a classroom in Brazil
    In education: Early 19th to early 20th century

    The Balfour Act of 1902 established a comprehensive system of local government for both secondary and elementary education. It created new local education authorities and empowered them to provide secondary schools and develop technical education. The Education Act of 1918 (The Fisher Act) aimed at the…

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    In United Kingdom: The return of the Liberals

    …Nonconformist grievances against the Balfour-engineered education act of 1902 that had abolished the school boards, transferred educational responsibilities to the all-purpose local authorities, and laid the foundations of a national system of secondary education. Yet local and national inquiries, official and unofficial, into the incidence of poverty had pointed to…

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opposition by Clifford

  • John Clifford, oil painting by an unknown artist after a portrait by John Collier; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
    In John Clifford

    …of passive resistance to the Education Act of 1902, which required public funds to support denominational schools, Clifford became a national figure and several times suffered confiscation of his personal belongings. From 1905 to 1911 he served as the first president of the Baptist World Alliance. Among his writings are…

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preparation by Morant

  • In Sir Robert Laurie Morant

    …responsible for preparing Arthur Balfour’s Education Act of 1902. In April 1903 he became permanent secretary to the Board of Education. In 1907 he was created Knight Commander of the Bath.

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