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Series
Local Education Authority: Schemes for Major Awards
Catalogue reference: ED 153
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ED 153
Board of Education files relating to local education authority schemes for major awards to students in higher and further education.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ED 153
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Title (The name of the record)
- Local Education Authority: Schemes for Major Awards
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1932-1956
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Description (What the record is about)
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Board of Education files relating to local education authority schemes for major awards to students in higher and further education.
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Arrangement
Alphabetically in county and county borough order for England and Wales.
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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)
- U 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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 300 file(s)
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- Topics
- Education
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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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Under the 1945 Regulations for Scholarships and Other Benefits, major awards were made available to qualified students for courses of education at universities and other places of further education. Regulations were issued with Circular 26 (March 1945) and local education authorities were required to revise their existing schemes of awards in the light of the terms of the circular. Broadly, these were that the value of a major award should be adequate and comparable to that of a state scholarship.
Revised schemes submitted by local education authorities were in operation in 1947 but there continued to be considerable variation in practice among authorities. In 1953 new arrangements were embodied in an agreed note on procedure and were recommended to local education authorities in Circular 263 (March 1953) and further revised schemes for university awards were submitted.
Further recommendations were made in Administrative Memorandum 425 (1954) concerning awards to students at technical colleges. By the end of 1954 the large majority of authorities had indicated general acceptance of the recommendations regarding both rates of grant and standards of selection.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6952/
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