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Committee on Adult Education (Russell Committee): Minutes, Papers and Report
Catalogue reference: ED 175
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ED 175
Agendas, minutes, papers of and written and oral evidence submitted to the Committee on Adult Education, together with sub-committee minutes and papers of the report of the committee Adult Education: a Plan for Development HMSO 1973.
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ED 175
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Title (The name of the record)
- Committee on Adult Education (Russell Committee): Minutes, Papers and Report
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Date (When the record was created)
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1969-1973
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Description (What the record is about)
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Agendas, minutes, papers of and written and oral evidence submitted to the Committee on Adult Education, together with sub-committee minutes and papers of the report of the committee Adult Education: a Plan for Development HMSO 1973.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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)
- Committee on Adult Education, 1969-1972
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25 file(s)
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Open
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- Topics
- Official publications
- 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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The Committee on Adult Education was set up in February 1969 by the Secretary of State,and chaired by Sir Lionel Russell, CBE. Its terms of reference were: to assess the need for and to review the provision of non-vocational adult education in England and Wales;to consider the appropriateness of existing educational, administrative and financial policies; andto make recommendations with a view to obtaining the most effective and economical deployment of available resources to enable adult education to make its proper contribution to the national system of education conceived of as a process continuing through life.
The first meeting was held 24 March 1969 and the last on 5 December 1972. The report was published in March 1973.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6974/
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