The Crowther Report, published in 1959 under the title 15 to 18, was a UK government review of education for teenagers, chaired by the historian Geoffrey Crowther. It recommended raising the minimum school leaving age to 16 and expanding part-time further education for young people who left school early, and its recommendations informed the eventual raising of the school leaving age in England and Wales.
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Education LevelUpper Secondary Education (ISCED 3) 1 Sources
1. Education in England: the history of our schools: Crowther Report (1959), 15 to 18
Education in England: the history of our schoolsForewordQuote, Foreword
Your predecessor, Sir David Eccles, asked the Central Advisory Council for Education (England) in March, 1956 to advise him on the education of boys and girls between the ages of 15 and 18.
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