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Series
Board of Education and successors: Technical Branch and Further Education Branch:...
Catalogue reference: ED 80
What's it about?
ED 80
Policy papers of the Board of Education and successors' Technical Branch and Further Education Branch relating to the provision of further education for adults.The files reflect the co-operation between the Board of Education and voluntary bodies...
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 80
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Education and successors: Technical Branch and Further Education Branch: Adult Education, General Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1923-1969
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Description (What the record is about)
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Policy papers of the Board of Education and successors' Technical Branch and Further Education Branch relating to the provision of further education for adults.
The files reflect the co-operation between the Board of Education and voluntary bodies in the provision of adult education and include material relating to national and public library schemes, the National Museum of Wales and the National Central Library; courses of instruction by Local Education Authorities and voluntary bodies; adult education in wartime; and post-war plans. The papers also include, inter alia, HM Inspectors' reports on the organisation of adult education provision.
A small number of representative specimen files dealing with general correspondence with the Local Education Authorities have been included.
In 1944 the 'A' series succeeded the 'T' series files.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The first part of the list is arranged under subject headings, the later files are arranged in numerical order.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Arts and Libraries Branch and predecessor
See also Records of the:
Technical Branch, Further Education Branch, etc
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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)
- T file series, WT file series and A file series
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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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- Board of Education, Technical Branch, 1902-1944
- Department of Education and Science, Further Education Branch 1, 1964-1970
- Department of Education and Science, Further Education Branch 2, 1964-1970
- Ministry of Education, Further Education Branch, 1944-1963
- Ministry of Education, Further Education Branch 1, 1963-1964
- Ministry of Education, Further Education Branch 2, 1963-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 89 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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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)
- The small number of representative specimen files dealing with general correspondence with Local Education Authorities serve only as examples of a file series which generally has not been preserved.
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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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Further education for adults was provided for under the Adult Education Regulations from 1924 to 1946. They were subsequently incorporated into the Further Education Grant Regulations.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6879/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: ED
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