English Explanatory Dictionary

tripartite system

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. 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.

Word forms

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