Board of Education and successors: Technical Branch and Further Education Branch:...

Files of the Board of Education and successors' Technical Branch and Further Education Branch relating to private non-grant-aided schools and institutions in the field of further education recognised as efficient for the purposes of teachers' superannuation.

These records deal with the applications of those establishments in the field of further education which presented their claims for recognition as effectively constituted schools or institutions. They include a few papers, prior to 1928, concerned with applications for the admission of teachers in private establishments to the existing Teachers' Supperannuation Scheme: these papers, to a limited extent, reveal the background against which Rules 16 (see below) were designed.

The files contain interview memoranda; applications and various correspondence and minutes relating to recognition; HM Inspectors' reports; and institution prospectuses.

Within individual transfers, the files are arranged by counties and county boroughs, in alphabetical order of location. Following the Local Government Act 1972, the outer London boroughs became education authorities in their own right and are therefore listed separately.

The drafting papers of Rules 16 can be found in ED 13/15

Further inspectorate reports are in ED 197

Topics

Pay and pensions

Education

Section 21 (1) (d) of the Teachers (Superannuation) Act 1925 made provision for teachers employed in non grant-aided schools and institutions to be included in a scheme for superannuation, and Rules 16, first issued in 1927, outlined the conditions under which the Board of Education would recognise such establishments as efficient in order to comply with the terms of the scheme.

Many private establishments which endeavoured to obtain recognition solely for the commercial value of Board of Education approval were unable to satisfy the conditions laid down in the rules which established standards comparable to those required in grant-aided institutions in respect of teaching staff, premises, curriculum, number of pupils and inspection.

Recognition of private schools and institutions as efficient is still accorded under Rules 16 but, since 1961, is no longer specifically related to any superannuation scheme.