Talk:Raising of school leaving age in England and Wales

Half timer
I (born 1985) have sometimes heard people brought up in the first half of the 20th century talk about being a "half timer", but I've never really known what it meant. Would it refer to someone who was in part-time education under the Fisher act 1918, as described in the article? Epa101 (talk) 21:12, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

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When was the school-leaving age raised to 15? (and 16)?
"In 1944, Rab Butler introduced the Education Act 1944 which amongst other changes, including the introduction of the Tripartite System, included raising the school leaving age to 15. Although the act should have been brought into effect as from September 1939,". I don't understand this. How could Rab Butler (or anybody) have introduced, in 1944, an Education Act that should have been brought into effect in 1939?Snugglepuss (talk) 23:17, 10 February 2019 (UTC)

// Edit Hi Wikipedians, I'm piggybacking on a similar topic. Within the second paragraph, the quote "On 1 September 1972, the age was raised from 15 to 16, after preparations which had begun in 1964" is apparent. There is a claim here with zero citation. I'm doing an investigation for University, and I have no proof when the leaving age became 16. Albeit, I can't find any UK Gov legislation which is totally bizarre, but is Wikipedia allowing non-referenced material in the first two paragraphs? There's no link to "after preparations", like, what preparations?

Also, https://leavershoodiescompany.co.uk/2018/04/2018-school-leavers-englands-history-of-the-school-leaving-age/ have a great infographic of school leaving ages in England. Though I can't cite leavershoodiescompany.com (no offence, LHC), could this timeline be replicated with citations for this page? Would be better visualisation of data than paragraphs with missing citations.


 * Raising the school leaving age from 14 to 15 had kicked around throughout the interwar period - Ramsay MacDonald brought in an abortive bill in his 1929-31 government. I think it was actually a different act in the 1930s which raised the age to 15 - it was due to come into force in 1939 but wasn't implemented because there were other things going on by then. The 1944 Butler Act called for the school leaving age to be raised to 16 but this didn't happen until the early 1970s. The main purpose of the Butler Act incidentally, wasn't tripartite education (which was simply the educational doctrine of the time) but absorbing most of the CofE schools into the state system. The CofE schools educated a far larger proportion of children than this article would suggest.Paulturtle (talk) 22:28, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

Incomplete sentence
No idea what was meant: "The UK Government hoped that by making education compulsory up to the age of seventeen years by 2013, eighteen years by 2015 and nineteen years by 2017." Theeurocrat (talk) 18:57, 26 April 2021 (UTC)