Bullock Report (A Language for Life)

This debate continued for many years, resulting in the Cox Report 1989 and the National Curriculum for English.

[3] While the Bullock Report had a major influence on the thinking of English teachers in the late 1970s and early '80s, it drew some criticism for its undue "optimism" and was gradually moved to the background as the UK placed greater emphasis on education as a practical means to employability.

The committee of inquiry was set-up in 1972 by Margaret Thatcher, the then Secretary of State for Education in Ted Heath's Conservative government following the earlier publication of a report by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) entitled "The Trend of Reading Standards".

[4] Alan Bullock was appointed the chairman, and the committee was given the following brief:"To consider in relation to schools: and to make recommendations.

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