tripartite system (English, name)
expansion: the tripartite system
Senses:
topics: education
glosses: The division of state-funded secondary education into three types of school: grammar school, secondary technical school, and secondary modern school; used between 1945 and the 1970s in England and Wales, and from 1947 to 2009 in Northern Ireland. Performance in the 11-plus examination determined which type of school a student would attend.
tags: Ireland
UK
historical
Forms:
form: the tripartite system
tags: canonical