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Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Statistics Branch,...

Catalogue reference: ED 189

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ED 189

Selected registered files from a small unit within the Planning Branch, later the Statistics Branch relating to the collection and presentation of statistics required by the Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science.Subjects...

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ED 189

Title
Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Statistics Branch, Later Statistics Division of Planning Branch: Registered Files (ST and SBCP Series)
Date

1961-1990

Description

Selected registered files from a small unit within the Planning Branch, later the Statistics Branch relating to the collection and presentation of statistics required by the Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science.

Subjects covered include the the provision of teachers, the means of measuring curricula in secondary schools; the collection of statistics on university students and staff, and their use in appraising shortages of, for example, science and technology graduates; the collection and analysis of statistics for students in further education establishments, immigrant pupils; and specific research projects.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

ST and SBCP file series

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
  • Department of Education and Science, Planning Branch, 1965-1972
  • Department of Education and Science, Research and Intelligence Branch, 1964-1965
  • Department of Education and Science, Statistics Branch, 1971-1981
  • Ministry of Education, Research and Intelligence Branch, 1961-1964
  • Ministry of Education, Statistics Branch, 1960-1961
Physical description

49 file(s)

Access conditions

Open

Immediate source of acquisition

From 1988 Department of Education and Science

Subjects
Topics
Research
Education
Accruals

Series is accruing.

Administrative / biographical background

Until 1960 (except for the period of the Second World War, when no report was produced), educational statistics were annexed to the annual report of the Board of Education and its successor, the Ministry of Education.

The effects of the Education Act 1944 led to a demand for more detailed statistics and, since 1961, these have been published separately under the title Statistics of Education.

Publication note(s)
Annual reports of the Board of Education and its successor, the Ministry of Education, were published as Parliamentary Papers. A complete series of these and Statistics of Education may be seen, subject to prior application to the Librarian, at the headquarters of the Department of Education and Science.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6988/

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