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This raised the school leaving age to fourteen and planned to expand Tertiary Education .

By the 1920s, the education of young children was of growing interest and concern to Politician s, as well as to Educationalists . As a result of this rising level of public debate, the Government of the day created a series of commissions of enquiry, headed by Hadow.
Altogether the Hadow Committee published three very important reports - 1926, 1931 and 1933.

These reports led to major changes in the stucture of primary education. In particular, they resulted in separate and distinctive educational practise for children aged 5-7 (infants) and those aged 7-11 (juniors).

The Reports recommended child centred approaches and class sizes of no more than thirty. These recommendations marked a triumph of 'progressive' educational thought and practise over the more 'traditional' ideas and proved to be popular with many policy makers and teachers alike.