The Newsom Report of 1963 is a United Kingdom government report, titled Half our Future . It argued that the future of the country depended on better education for "pupils of average and less-than-average ability". The report was produced by the Central Advisory Council for Education (England) and takes its name from the council's chairman John Newsom, Joint Managing Director of Longmans Green and Co Ltd., and formerly the County Education Officer of Hertfordshire.
2-496: The 1944 Butler Education Act and the similar Education (Northern Ireland) Act 1947 radically overhauled education in England and Wales and Northern Ireland. For the first time, free secondary education became a universally provided right. This was a part of the major shake-up of government welfare in the wake of the 1942 Beveridge report . There followed three categories of state-run secondary schools . The report found that
4-503: The young people whose education it had considered should receive a greater share of the national resources devoted to education. The report uncovered serious examples of neglect. For example it found that some secondary moderns in slum areas of London had primary school furniture for fifteen-year-olds, and teachers changing as often as once a term. The report was however overshadowed by the Robbins Report on higher education, which
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