biography
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Spens, Sir Will(iam)
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| lived:
| (1882–1962)
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| biography:
| Educational administrator, born in Glasgow, W Scotland, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and was Master of Corpus Christi College there (1927–52). As chairman of the Consultative Committee on Education from 1934, he produced the report on Secondary Education (Grammar Schools and Technical High Schools) (1938), which recommended the raising of the school-leaving age to 15, and a widening of the provision of secondary education. His views paved the way for the Norwood Report (1943) and the Education Act of 1944. |
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