What is "horsa"

HORSA is the acronym for the 'Hutting Operation for the Raising of the School-Leaving Age', a programme of hut-building in schools introduced by the UK Government to support the expansion of education under the Education Act 1944 to raise the compulsory education age by a year to age 15.

Horsa is an Anglo-Saxon leader in British legend.

Horsa may also refer to:

• HORSA, a UK government hut-building programme to support expansion under the Education Act 1944
• Airspeed Horsa, a British World War II troop-carrying glider
• G-AAUC Horsa a biplane airliner built in 1940 by Handley Page
• Horsa Bridge, a bridge over the Orne River captured by gliderborne troops in the opening minutes the 1944 Normandy Landings
• Horsa Nunataks, a line of Antarctic islands