Raising the school leaving age

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Richard H. Tawney (1922) Secondary education for all—a policy for Labour (London, George Allen & Unwin). Tawney edited this document for the Education Advisory Committee of the Labour Party. 2. In his biography of Clem Attlee, Francis Beckett says that some 35,000 new teachers had to be found. In his history of education 1940–1990, Brian Simon notes a figure of 13,000 teachers over and above those required to meet natural wastage. See Francis Beckett (2000) Clem Attlee (London, Politicos) and Brian Simon (1991) Education and the social order (London, Lawrence Wishart). 3. Harold Wilson (1971) The Labour Government 1964–1970: a personal record (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson), 484. 4. Schools Council (1965) Working Paper No. 2—Raising the school leaving age (London, HMSO). 5. Ibid.