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单词 free place
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free place
free place n. a school place available to a pupil who satisfies particular requirements; spec. (now historical) with reference to a scheme in the United Kingdom, introduced under the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act of 1907, whereby grant-aided secondary schools were required to award state-subsidized scholarships to some promising pupils from public elementary schools (frequently attributive); cf. assisted place at assisted adj. Additions.
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schooling1563
free place1838
1838 Digest Evid. before Comm. Houses Lords & Commons, 1837, on National Syst. Educ. Ireland xii. 163 We think it desirable that a certain number of free places should be hereafter established for boarders at each model-school;—that boys should be selected for them at examination to be held for that purpose,—and that the head master should receive from the public for their board and instruction the same as he receives from the parents or friends of other children.
1865 Times 2 Oct. 6/6 If free places were reserved in them [sc. proprietary schools] for the most promising pupils of the National Schools they might render the most effectual help to the ‘pauperes et indigentes’ of the old statutes.
1907 Hansard, Commons 15 May 1054 These free places..would be for Public Elementary School children who would not be asked to compete with children outside but who would only be asked to pass a qualifying examination.
1909 Daily Chron. 28 July 5/5 The distinction between fee-paying and free-place scholars.
1977 Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 27 144 The demand for free places expanded steadily and rapidly,..turning the free place examination into an intensely competitive scholarship examination right from the start.
2000 Econ. Affairs 20 57/2 The contract specifies that the new school must provide free places for nine classes—or 450 pupils—from the school zone, and will receive the standard funding from the local bureau for these children.
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