The Tripartite System was the system that flowed as an administrative arrangement from the Education Act 1944, and the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1947, for organising secondary education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. State funded secondary education was arranged into a structure containing three types of school, namely: grammar school, secondary technical school and secondary modern school.

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  • The Tripartite System was the system that flowed as an administrative arrangement from the Education Act 1944, and the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1947, for organising secondary education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. State funded secondary education was arranged into a structure containing three types of school, namely: grammar school, secondary technical school and secondary modern school. Pupils were allocated to their respective types of school according to their performance in the Eleven Plus examination. It was the prevalent system under the Conservative governments of the 1951 to 1964 period, but was actively discouraged by the Labour government after 1965. It was formally abolished in England and Wales in 1976, giving way to the Comprehensive System. However, elements of similar systems persist in several English counties. The system's merits and demerits, in particular the need and selection for grammar schools, proved to be a contentious issue at the time and still remain so.
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  • The Tripartite System was the system that flowed as an administrative arrangement from the Education Act 1944, and the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1947, for organising secondary education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. State funded secondary education was arranged into a structure containing three types of school, namely: grammar school, secondary technical school and secondary modern school.
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  • Tripartite System
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