Leeds (England)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Selection for Higher Education, 6 Nov 1951
File
Identifier: Coll-1310/3/1/3/8
Scope and Contents
The lecture largely concerns how selection for university entrance can be made more fair and equal, beginning at the age of eleven with the eleven-plus examination which determines a child's entry into a grammar or a modern school, the latter of which removes the possibility of attending university. Thomson argues for a mechanism by which pupils wrongly rejected by grammar schools may still enter university. He discusses the influence of industry and...
Dates:
6 Nov 1951