History A-Level
Educational reform and its limits
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The 1786 Statute on National Education aimed to create a network of state-funded schools, though rural implementation lagged, and educational benefits rarely reached the enserfed peasantry.
Topics that use Educational reform and its limits
- 1E Russia in the Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment, 1682–1796 (A-level only) – Catherine the Great and Russia, 1762–1796 (AQA A-Level)
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