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A Ministry of Education was established, and free County Colleges were set up for the compulsory part-time instruction of teenagers between the ages of 15 and 18 who were not in full-time education.

An Emergency Training Scheme was also introduced which turned out an extra 25, 000 teachers in 1945-51.

Despite these achievements, Attlee's government failed to introduce the comprehensive education for which many socialists had hoped ( as a means of making the educational system less meritoric ).

This reform was eventually carried out by Harold Wilson's government.