Week commencing
14 May 2012

Welcome to my website. I hope you'll find it useful.

The information page has a bit about me and the site, including the latest visitor statistics and links to other websites.

The updates page lists recent additions to the site.

If you'd like to let others know about Education in England you can download an A4-sized poster.

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 information and original source material relating to the development of England's school system.

It contains the full texts of more than 200 important documents, including Reports, Official Papers and Acts of Parliament.

The site is divided into three main sections which can be accessed using the buttons at the top or bottom of every page. (Clicking on the Education in England logo always brings you back to this page).

History

Education in England: a brief history tells the story of England's schools from 597 to 2010. In addition to the main text (117,000 words in twelve chapters), there's also a timeline of major events, education acts and publications (the most visited page on the whole website), a glossary and a bibliography.

Documents

Almost all the important reports on education in England and Wales since the 1920s are here: Hadow, Plowden, Bullock, Warnock, Cockcroft, Swann and Elton etc. There are also more than a hundred Acts of Parliament passed since 1825, and various other government and HMI publications.

Articles

Here is everything I've written about education since 1987: 29 articles on primary education, pupil grouping policies, faith schools, academies, creationism, school meals and religious education in Oxfordshire etc; 20 book reviews; some teaching aids and school policies; plus my five attempts at writing fiction.