The 1944 Education Act set up a free British state secondary school system, with schools divided into grammar schools, secondary modern schools and technical schools. School places were allocated on the basis of the 11-plus examination results. (Dent, H.C., The Education Act 1944, University of London Press, London, 1968)

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