Hadow (1926) 1926 Hadow Report (text) |
The Hadow Report (1926) The Education of the Adolescent Background notes Historical context The 1899 Board of Education Act established a Board of Education 'charged with the superintendence of matters relating to education in England and Wales' (section 1). It provided for the establishment of a Consultative Committee to keep a register of teachers and to advise the Board 'on any matter referred to the committee by the Board' (section 4). The Consultative Committee produced many reports - including this one - during its lifetime. It was replaced following the 1944 Education Act by the Central Advisory Council for Education (CACE). Sir Henry Hadow was an educationist (Vice Chancellor of the University of Sheffield from 1919 to 1930), a well-known music critic and a prodigious writer. He chaired the Consultative Committee for six reports between 1923 and 1933: 1923 Differentiation of the Curriculum for Boys and Girls
The 1926 report was particularly significant as it recommended the establishment of primary and secondary schools with the break at age 11, a policy which was eventually implemented in the 1944 Education Act. For more about Hadow and other Committee members and summaries of the reports, see my article The Hadow Reports: an introduction.
Summary of the report's main recommendations The report lists 38 recommendations including:
The report online The full text of the report (including the Appendices) is presented in a single web page. I have modernised some of the spelling and punctuation. Anything added by way of explanation is shown [in square brackets].
The above notes were prepared by Derek Gillard and uploaded on 2 April 2006; they were revised on 4 November 2012. |