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Home Dictionary Name: elementary educationState Elementary Education Development Programme (SPEED)
State Elementary Education Development Programme (SPEED), means the Special Programme for Elementary Education, which is financed by UNICEF, AUSAID and other financial institutions. [Bihar State Vidyalaya Shiksha Samiti Act, 2000, s. 2(18)]...
Elementary education
Elementary education. See EDUCATION....
Education
Education. Mr. Forster's Elementary Education Act, 1870 (English) (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75), is the starting point in the history of the provision by legislation of a general system of education. Before this date education had been dealt with either as a series of individual problems in respect of which provisions were made for the education of special classes of persons, or by executive, as opposed to legislative methods, as, for example, by a system of grants in aid. This Act was followed by a series of Acts, known collectively as the Education Acts, 1870 to 1919, which together established a system of free and compulsory elementary education of a non-denominational character. The initial Act established 'school boards' with powers of building and maintaining elementary schools and of regulating the attendance of school children between the ages of 5 and 13. The El. Ed. Act, 1876, declared 'the duty of the parent of every child to cause such child to receive efficient elementary educatio...
Education Committee
Education Committee, is a committee established by a local education authority, which has to report on questions of elementary education, other than finance, before action is taken (see Education Act, 1921, s. 4)....
Education Department
Education Department, 'the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education' (Elementary Education Act, 1870, s. 3). It was superseded by the Board of Education (q.v.) in 1889....
School
School. See EDUCATION; PUBLIC SCHOOLS; RE-FORMATORY SCHOOLS; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Education.'An institution of learning and education, esp. for children, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1346.School Attendance Committee, a committee appointed annually (in 'school districts' not within the jurisdiction of a 'school board') for the purpose of enforcing the Elementary Education Act, 1876, by proceeding against parents who neglected to send their children to a public elementary school. The duties of this Committee were transferred to the local education authorities by the Education Act, 1902. This Act was repealed by the Education Act, 1921, but the responsibilities of the local education authorities in this respect were confirmed (s. 43).School Board, a body corporate of persons elected triennially, for the purpose of managing 'public elementary schools' within their respective districts [(English) Elementary Education Acts, 1870 and 1873]. School Boards were abolished by the (Eng...
Agricultural Children Act, 1873
Agricultural Children Act, 1873 (English) (36 & 37 Vict. c. 67). This Act made regulations as to the employment of children under ten years of age. It was repealed by the (English) Elementary Education Act, 1876, which was itself repealed by the Education Act, 1921, see Part VIII. Of which for restrictions on employment of children and young persons, and see (English) Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12), s. 18. See Chitty's Statute, tit. 'Education....
Cowper-temple clause
Cowper-temple clause. S. 14(2) of the (English) Elementary Education Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75), whereby 'no religious catechism or religious formulary, which is distinctive of any particular denomination,' migh tbe taught in a scholl provided by a School Board, and therefore may not be taught in any of the schools provided by local education authorities who have succeeded the School Boards. Re-enacted by the (English) Education Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 28 (2)....
Public Elementary School
Public Elementary School. See EDUCATION....
Pestalozzian
Belonging to or characteristic of a system of elementary education which combined manual training with other instruction advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi 1746 1827 a Swiss teacher...
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