Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Apprenticeship in Education
- 2 The Board School Teacher, 1882–1892
- 3 The Schoolmaster
- 4 The London School Board, 1894–1897
- 5 President of the NUT
- 6 The London School Board, 1897–1900
- 7 Parliament, 1900–1902
- 8 The 1902 Education Act
- 9 The End of the London School Board
- 10 The Decline of the Unionist Government, 1903–1905
- 11 Outside and Inside the Government, 1905–1908
- 12 Financial Secretary to the Admiralty I: 1908–1914
- 13 Financial Secretary to the Admiralty II: 1914–1920
- 14 Minister of Labour
- 15 Exclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
8 - The 1902 Education Act
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Apprenticeship in Education
- 2 The Board School Teacher, 1882–1892
- 3 The Schoolmaster
- 4 The London School Board, 1894–1897
- 5 President of the NUT
- 6 The London School Board, 1897–1900
- 7 Parliament, 1900–1902
- 8 The 1902 Education Act
- 9 The End of the London School Board
- 10 The Decline of the Unionist Government, 1903–1905
- 11 Outside and Inside the Government, 1905–1908
- 12 Financial Secretary to the Admiralty I: 1908–1914
- 13 Financial Secretary to the Admiralty II: 1914–1920
- 14 Minister of Labour
- 15 Exclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
A promise had been made, but, at the beginning of March 1902, it was by no means certain that it would be kept. ‘Ferula’ conceded that, with the Boer War still in progress, the toga was likely to yield to the sword. No bill had been tabled and Mr Balfour only ‘hoped’ to table it before Whitsuntide. Nevertheless, the King's promise and Balfour's hope had been sufficient to prevent the moving of an amendment to the Address:
Otherwise an amendment, affirming the principle of One Local Authority for all kinds of schools in each local government area of suitable size, must have polled three-fourths of the House of Commons. It is wonderful how popular that idea has become. Six years ago it could count but one set of supporters. But that was a numerous and persistent set: it was the NUT.
Macnamara made clear what the NUT intended in an article in the March New Liberal Review. He began by claiming that if the Bill lived up to the promise of the Speech from the Throne, it would have no more ardent supporter than himself. The duplication of educational effort by boards and county authorities was wasteful, overlapped and failed to provide coordination. What the Government would attempt to do was to insist that the municipal councils would be the Education Authorities in each locality. But what would happen to the school boards?, he asked.
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- Dr Macnamara 1861-1931 , pp. 161 - 184Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1999