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Board of Education, Technical Branch, and Ministry of Education, Further Education...
Catalogue reference: ED 61
What's it about?
ED 61
Files of the Board of Education Technical Branch and Ministry of Education Further Education Branch relating to the provision of short courses at further education colleges, art schools and evening institutes maintained or assisted by Local...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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ED 61
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Education, Technical Branch, and Ministry of Education, Further Education Branch: Local Education Authority Teachers' Short Courses, Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1934-1954
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Description (What the record is about)
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Files of the Board of Education Technical Branch and Ministry of Education Further Education Branch relating to the provision of short courses at further education colleges, art schools and evening institutes maintained or assisted by Local Education Authorities.
The files contain correspondence, syllabuses, handbooks and inspectors' reports.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
For England by counties and county boroughs.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Education, Technical Branch, 1902-1944
- Ministry of Education, Further Education Branch, 1944-1963
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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47 file(s)
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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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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Files relating to earlier provisions organised by Local Education Authorities under the Regulations for Further Education were classified as "Teachers Classes" files. This material and the majority of papers prior to 1935 of the subsequent series of "Teachers Short Courses" files have been destroyed. For the period 1936-1954 complete files of two Local Education Authorities only have been preserved as representative specimens.
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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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Short courses were provided for teachers by Local Education Authorities as part of their arrangements for further education under the Further Education Grant Regulations.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6860/
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