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Tripartite System
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Tripartite system (United Kingdom).
The tripartite system was the selective school system of state-fundedsecondary education between 1945 and the 1970s in England and Wales, and from 1947 onwards in Northern Ireland (but never in Scotland). It was an administrative implementation of the Education Act 1944 and the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1947. The tripartite system is not mentioned in either Act, this model was a consensus of both major political parties based on the 1938 Spens Report.