The Cream of Bristol

Abstract

In number two of the six‐city survey, we have chosen to profile Bristol. In part because it stands in greatest contrast to last month's profile on Glasgow, and also because it reflects the traditional affluence of the South‐West together with a very strong bias in its thinking towards the secondary educational sector. This has undergone a silent revolution over the years, resulting in almost complete secondary re‐organization on all‐through 11–18 comprehensive lines. Unlike other cities in the series, we chose in Bristol to limit our investigations to two sectors. It must be emphasized that the four secondary schools, Lawrence Weston, Henbury, Pen Park and Greenway, were chosen as much as examples of very different types of comprehensive schools as because they happened to be in Bristol. What would have been invidious comparison in Glasgow or Liverpool, was here possible — since the total social spectrum across which one could deal was that much narrower.

Citation

(1968), "The Cream of Bristol", Education + Training, Vol. 10 No. 1, pp. 4-5. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb015904