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Ministry of Overseas Development and Overseas Development Administration: Education...
Catalogue reference: OD 52
What's it about?
OD 52
The records in this series of Education Department files deal with general questions regarding aid policy in the fields of education and training, including liaison with the British Council, the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and other...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- OD 52
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Overseas Development and Overseas Development Administration: Education Department and successors: Registered Files (ED, EDA and EDB Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1975-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records in this series of Education Department files deal with general questions regarding aid policy in the fields of education and training, including liaison with the British Council, the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and other organisations which have provided educational services for the development departments. The department also handled training aspects of technical co-operation agreements between the United Kingdom and other states.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By original file series reference within three-year file cycle.
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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)
- ED, EDA and EDB
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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 International Development, 1997-1997
- Ministry of Overseas Development, 1974-1979
- Overseas Development Administration, Education Division, 1979-1997
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 126 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2020 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
From 1999 Department for International Development
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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
- Aid and development
- Education
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- OD 52/1-6 were selected for permanent preservation following an accelerated review process under the Open Government Initiative in the Overseas Development Administration which identified certain subjects whose records could be released early, including these files on the parliamentary select committee's inquiry into the implications for development aid of the decision to increase overseas students' fees in 1980, and on the implications of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). Other files in the series will be subjected to selection review when they are due regular second review from c. 2000.
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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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The Education Department was established in 1975, taking over responsibilities for education and training provision matters previously handled by the Universities and Technical Education Department and the School and Teacher Training Department. Responsibility for training policy matters was added in 1976, and the department was renamed the Education and Training Policy Department. In 1979 the department was replaced by the Education Division, though this carried out the same basic functions.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14905/
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