Week commencing
30 August 2010

Welcome to my website. I hope you'll find it useful. If you do, and you'd like to let others know about it, you can download a poster (in pdf format).

There's a bit about me and about the site on the information page, which includes the latest visitor statistics and links to other sites.

Comments or questions about anything on the site are always welcome - contact details are here.

Derek Gillard

Education in England aims to provide students, teachers, lecturers and researchers with historical information including the full texts of some important documents.

The site is divided into three main sections which can be accessed using the buttons at the top or bottom of every page. (The Home button always brings you back to this page).

History

Education in England: a brief history tells the story of England's schools from around 600 to the present. In addition to the main text (40,000 words in six chapters), there's also a timeline of major events and education acts (the most visited page on the whole website), a glossary and a bibliography. It was last updated in 2007 and a further revision is now under way: the new version should be online in the autumn.

Documents

Here you'll find the full texts of 25 major education reports published between 1867 and 1992, including all six Hadow Reports (1923-1933), the Crowther Report (1959), Plowden (1967), Bullock (1975), Warnock (1978), Cockcroft (1982), Swann (1985), Elton (1989) and more. There are also a couple of HMI survey reports and various other government and HMI publications.

Articles

This section contains everything I've written about education since 1987. There are 29 articles (including major pieces on primary education, pupil grouping policies, faith schools, academies, creationism and school meals), my MA thesis (about religious education in Oxfordshire), 18 book reviews, a couple of teaching aids, some school policy documents and my five attempts at writing fiction (four of them for children).