biography
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Plowden, Bridget Hortia, Lady
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née Richmond
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1907–2000)
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| biography:
| British educationist. She was educated at Downe House, and in 1933 married Edwin Noel Plowden (1907–2001), who was created Baron Plowden in 1959. The first woman to chair the Central Advisory Council for Education (1963–6), she also chaired the Independent Broadcasting Authority (1975–80) and the Training Commission (1983–8). Her government report, Children and their Primary Schools (1967), argued that education must be concerned with the whole family, and that increased resources were needed for nursery education and for areas starved of new investment. The Plowden Report marked a watershed in the development of English primary education. |
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