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used for

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, the

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and the

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that relates to

education Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education als ...

. The Bill for an Act with this short title will have been known as an Education Bill during its passage through Parliament. The Education Acts may be a generic name either for legislation bearing that short title or for all legislation which relates to education.

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Australia

*The 1893 Education Act of Western Australia *The Education Act 1872 (Vic)

Hong Kong

*The Education Ordinance 1971

India

* Kerala Education Bill, 1957 *Education Bill that became the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009

Malaysia

*The

Education Act 1996 The Education Act 1996 (c. 56) is act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, introduced under the second John Major government. It led to the establishment of special local authorities, who for example would identify children with special educ ...

New Zealand

*The Education Act 1877 *The Education Act 1914

Ontario

* Education Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. E.2

United Kingdom

* The Elementary Education Acts 1870 to 1893, the

collective title A collective title is an expression by which two or more pieces of legislation may, under the law of the United Kingdom, be cited together. A famous example is the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949. Construction of references to citation with a group ...

of the following acts: ** The

Elementary Education Act 1870 The Elementary Education Act 1870 ( 33 & 34 Vict. c. 75), commonly known as Forster's Education Act, set the framework for schooling of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 in England and Wales. It established local education authorities wit ...

( 33 & 34 Vict. c. 75) – the Forster Act ** The Elementary Education Act 1873 ( 36 & 37 Vict. c. 86) ** The Elementary Education Act 1876 ( 39 & 40 Vict. c. 70) – the Sandon Act ** The Elementary Education (Industrial Schools) Act 1879 ( 42 & 43 Vict. c 48) ** The

Elementary Education Act 1880 The Elementary Education Act 1880 ( 43 & 44 Vict. c. 23), or Mundella's Education Act, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative ...

( 43 & 44 Vict. c. 23) – the Mundella Act ** The Education Code Act 1890 ( 53 & 54 Vict. c. 22) ** The Elementary Education Act 1891 ( 54 & 55 Vict. c. 56) ** The Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf Children) Act 1893 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 42) ** The Elementary Education (School Attendance) Act 1893 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 51) ** The Elementary Education Act 1901 (?) * The Education Act 1901 ( 1 Edw. 7. c. 11) * The Education Act 1901 (Renewal) Act 1902 ( 2 Edw. 7. c. 19) * The

Education Act 1902 The Education Act 1902 ( 2 Edw. 7. c. 42), also known as the Balfour Act, was a highly controversial act of Parliament that set the pattern of elementary education in England and Wales for four decades. It was brought to Parliament by a Conserva ...

– sometimes known as the Balfour Act * The

Education (Provision of Meals) Act 1906 The Education (Provision of Meals) Act 1906 ( 6 Edw. 7. c. 57) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Margaret McMillan and Fred Jowett were members of the school board which introduced free school meals in Bradford. This was actu ...

* The Education (Administrative Provisions) Act 1907 * The

Education Act 1918 The Education Act 1918 ( 8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 39), often known as the Fisher Act, is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was drawn up by H. A. L. Fisher. Herbert Lewis, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education, also played ...

– sometimes known as the Fisher Act * The Education Act 1936 * The

Education Act 1944 The Education Act 1944 ( 7 & 8 Geo. 6. c. 31) made major changes in the provision and governance of secondary schools in England and Wales. It is also known as the Butler Act after the President of the Board of Education, R. A. Butler. Histori ...

– sometimes known as the Butler Act * The Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948 (repealed 1 November 1996) * The Education Act 1964 * The Education Act 1968 * The Education Act 1976 * The Education Act 1979 * The Education Act 1980 * The Education Act 1981 * The Education (No. 2) Act 1986 * The

Education Reform Act 1988 The Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40) is legislation that introduced multiple changes to the education system in England and Wales, including the introduction of Key Stages and the National Curriculum. It replaced many rules and structures that h ...

* The

Further and Higher Education Act 1992 The Further and Higher Education Act 1992 made changes in the funding and administration of further education and higher education within England and Wales, with consequential effects on associated matters in Scotland which had previously been g ...

* The

Education Act 1994 The Education Act 1994 (c. 30) is an act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom under John Major's government in 1994, which primarily established the Teacher Training Agency and allowed students to opt out of students' unions. Part I P ...

* The

School Standards and Framework Act 1998 The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 was the major education legislation passed by the incoming Labour government led by Tony Blair. This Act: * imposed a limit of 30 on infant class sizes. * abolished grant-maintained schools, introduci ...

* The Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 * The

Education Act 2002 The Education Act 2002 (c. 32) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that gave schools greater autonomy to implement experimental teaching methods. Main provisions The act significantly amended legislation relating to academies, pub ...

* The

Higher Education Act 2004 The Higher Education Act 2004 (c. 8) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that introduced several changes to the higher education system in the United Kingdom, the most important and controversial being a major change to the fundi ...

* The

Education Act 2005 The Education Act 2005 (c. 18) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Introduced under the second Tony Blair government, it was enacted in order to simplify the process of school improvement, strengthening the accountability framewo ...

* The

Education and Inspections Act 2006 The Education and Inspections Act 2006 (c 40) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. According to the government the Act "''is intended to represent a major step forward in the Government’s aim of ensuring that all children in all ...

* The Education Act 2011 (c. 21)

Scotland

* The

Education Act 1496 The Education Act 1496 (c. 87) was an act of the Parliament of Scotland that required landowners to send their eldest sons to school to study Latin, arts and law. This made schooling compulsory for the first time in the world. The humanist ...

(c. 87) * The

School Establishment Act 1616 The School Establishment Act 1616 was an Act of the Scottish Privy Council dated 10 December 1616. It mandated the establishment of publicly funded, Church-supervised schools in every parish of Scotland. The act was a consequence of the Scottish ...

* The

Education Act 1633 The Education Act 1633 (c. 5) was an act of the Parliament of Scotland that ordered a locally funded, Church-supervised school to be established in every parish in Scotland, and included the means to realise that order. The act was passed by the ...

(c. 5) * The Education Act 1646 (c. 46) * The

Education Act 1696 The Education Act 1696 (c. 26) was an act of the Parliament of Scotland that ordered locally funded, church-supervised schools to be established in every parish in Scotland. It was passed by the Parliament at Edinburgh on 8 September 1696 in the ...

(c. 26) * The Education (Scotland) Act 1980 * The Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992 * The

Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 The Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004 is an Act of the Scottish Parliament that received Royal Assent in 2004. It seeks to redefine the law relating to the provision of special education to children with additional n ...

(asp 4) – an act of the Scottish Parliament * The Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2009 – an act of the Scottish Parliament The Education (Scotland) Acts 1872 to 1893 was the

of the following Acts:The Short Titles Act 1896, section 2(1) and Schedule 2 *The

Education (Scotland) Act 1872 The Education (Scotland) Act 1872 ( 35 & 36 Vict. c. 62) made elementary education for all children between the ages of 5 and 13 mandatory in Scotland. The Act achieved a more thorough transfer of existing schools to a public system than the E ...

( 35 & 36 Vict. c. 62) *The Education (Scotland) Act 1878 ( 41 & 42 Vict. c. 78) *The Public Schools (Scotland) Teachers Act 1882 ( 45 & 46 Vict. c. 18) *The Education (Scotland) Act 1883 ( 46 & 47 Vict. c. 56) *The Parliamentary Grant (Caithness and Sutherland) Act 1889 ( 52 & 53 Vict. c. 75) *The Education of Blind and Death-Mute Children (Scotland) Act 1890 ( 53 & 54 Vict. c. 43) *The Day Industrial Schools (Scotland) Act 1893 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 12)

Ireland

*The Education Act 1695 – act of the Parliament of Ireland

United States

*The

Higher Education Act of 1965 The Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) () was legislation signed into Law of the United States, United States law on November 8, 1965, as part of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society domestic agenda. Johnson chose Texas State University (t ...

Elementary and Secondary Education Act The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1965. Part of Johnson's "War on Poverty", the act has been one of the most far-rea ...

1965 *The

Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was passed by the 89th United States Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1965. Part of Johnson's "War on Poverty", the act has been one of the most far-rea ...

* Florida House Bill 1069 *

No Child Left Behind Act The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) was a 2002 United States Act of Congress promoted by the presidential administration of George W. Bush. It reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and included Title I provisio ...

2001 *

Every Student Succeeds Act The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is a US law passed in December 2015 that governs the United States K–12 public education policy. The law replaced its predecessor, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and modified but did not eliminate ...

2016

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