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Series
Department of Education and Science and successors: Schools Branch 4: Registered...
Catalogue reference: ED 289
What's it about?
ED 289
This series contains records on subjects including City Technology Colleges, grant-maintained schools, the registration and regulation of independent schools, testing and assessment, and Records of Achievement.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ED 289
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Education and Science and successors: Schools Branch 4: Registered Files (S4 series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1987-2002
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records on subjects including City Technology Colleges, grant-maintained schools, the registration and regulation of independent schools, testing and assessment, and Records of Achievement.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also ED 207
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- S4, S4C
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department for Education, 1992-1995
- Department for Education and Employment, 1995-2001
- Department of Education and Science, Schools Branch 4, 1988-1992
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 260 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2014 Department for Education
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Education
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Schools Branch 4 was created in 1988 and had four divisions: Division A was responsible for City Technology Colleges, independent schools, the assisted places scheme and music and ballet schools; Division B was responsible for grant-maintained schools; Division C was responsible for school examinations and later for long-term planning for school organization and for schools in special measures; Division D was responsible for testing and assessment, the Assessment of Performance Unit and Records of Achievement.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14151676/
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