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PDF 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit minute to MT ("Training Colleges") [MT concerned about lack of detail in proposal "to restore technical and vocational education as a prime force in the educational system"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("The David Young Proposal") ["I strongly believe that a move towards a technical curriculum is needed. I welcome the David Young initiative. I believe that the intensified odium which it will arouse in the world of education is unavoidable if no extra finance is made available to allow LEAs to compete with the MSC"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 9 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit & Alan Walters joint minute to MT ("Training Colleges") ["The advantage of using the [Manpower Services Commission] is that... It would avoid the corrupting influences of many LEAs and it would avoid the pseudo-intellectualism of the universities... worthwhile insisting that the trade unions have only a minor role in this development"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 10 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Keith Joseph, Tebbit, Brittan, Young) ["Training colleges": MT "concerned that the proposal in these papers was very far from fully worked out"; pilot scheme & funding agreed; draft requested for MT statement to Parliament] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 11 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Keith Joseph PS ("Technical Colleges") [MT draft reply to written PQ following resolution of funding dispute] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit letter to Brittan ("The new Technical Education Initiative") [controversy over funding] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 letter to Keith Joseph PS (Principal of Yeovil College: article on shortcomings of technical education in schools) [MT interested in article and prepared to meet with the Principal to discuss it] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Feb 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph, David Hancock) [Principal of Yeovil College article on shortcomings of technical education in schools] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit letter to Brittan ("Technical and Vocational Education Initiative") ["how we could best build on the success so far achieved [of the 14 pilot projects]; Brittan outlines concerns about extension of the scheme; MT querying the term 'project'] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 22 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 ("Technical and Vocational Education Initiative") [MT "had asked where pilot schemes under this Initiative will be housed... the Commission preferred to work with and through local education authorities"; MT: "How very disappointing. I thought we were establishing 14 new technical schools"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 May 11 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit letter to Brittan ("Technical and Vocational Education Initiative") [detailed analysis of expenditure implications; conclusion: "the proposals for financing development of the TVEI are now as soundly based as possible"; Scottish position; "longer term implications"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jun 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger letter to Tebbit ("Technical and Vocational Education Initiative") ["Before we proceed with consultations in Scotland, we will need to settle the details of how... [Manpower Services Commission] involvement fits in with the different educational arrangements and developments here in Scotland"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chairman of Manpower Services Commission minute to MT ("Technical and Vocational Education Initiative") ["[first wave of uptake] did not achieve a satisfactory regional balance (ILEA and some other politically motivated authorities did not apply).. now on a new round to extend the Initiative.. [not clear] how many LEAs will be able to measure up to the standards required... greater awareness for the need for technical and vocational subjects... problems of teacher supply and... training"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 19 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, David Young) [future development of Manpower Services Commission: "main concern now... National Training Commission... encountering opposition from [Department of Education]"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Tebbit minute to MT ("National Training Commission") ["The need for an initiative of this kind to bring education closer to the world of work and training has been long recognised"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 31 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("National Training Commission") [reassignment of funding & responsibilities for further vocational education and for employment services] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tebbit, King, Young, Armstrong) ["National Training Commission": reassignment of funding & responsibilities for further vocational education and for employment services] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("National Training Commission and related matters") [concerns about No.10 record of recent meeting, in regard to his Department's powers & responsibilities for further vocational education] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 8 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MT minute to Keith Joseph ("National Training Commission") [MT clarifies & endorses No.10 record of recent meeting with which both Joseph and King were unhappy in regard to their concerns about their respective Departments' powers & responsibilities for further vocational education] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT ("National Training Commission") [summary of Armstrong draft paper for Ministerial consultation; MT determined to end Department of Education's control of vocational training due to its having "done so little" for industrial needs] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Responsibility for Work-Related Training in the Further Education Sector) [Armstrong draft paper for Ministerial consultation; MT determined to end Department of Education's control of vocational training due to its having "done so little" for industrial needs] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("E(A) papers for 13 December") [Training for Jobs] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Training for Jobs") ["development of Youth Training Scheme... further improvements in adult skill training"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("YTS and unemployed 17-year-olds in 1984/85") [Manpower Services Commission should "squeeze the 90,000 unemployed 17-year-olds into some kind of occupation by 1985"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 12 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Responsibility for work-related training in the further education sector") [transfer of funding & responsibilities from local authorities to Manpower Services Commission] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Meeting with Keith Joseph on Thursday, 15 December") [new policy for schools; proposed changes in role of Manpower Services Commission; agricultural research] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger letter to King ("Responsibility for work-related training in the further education sector") [transfer of funding from English & Welsh local authorities to Manpower Services Commission: outline of alternative measures for Scotland] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Changing the Manpower Services Commission") [transfer of work-related futher education funding from local authorities to MSC; transfer of job centres to Department of Employment] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT (Responsibility for work-related training in the further education sector) [transfer of funding from local authorities to Manpower Services Commission; transfer of job centres to Department of Employment] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 16 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (Responsibility for work-related training in the further education sector) [transfer of funding from local authorities to Manpower Services Commission; transfer of job centres to Department of Employment] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (meeting on 21st December to discuss work-related training in the education sector) [Lord Bellwin to deputise for Environment Secretary due to clash with Rate Limitation Bill press conference] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 20 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, King, Keith Joseph, Tebbit, Younger, Edwards, Rees, Lord Mackay of Clashfern, Patrick Mayhew, Lord Bellwin, Young, Armstrong) ["Work related training in the further education sector"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 21 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Manpower Services Commission letter to King PS (White Paper on Training) [timing of publication] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Dec 23 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("White Paper on Training") [TVEI; YTS; adult training; transfer of responsibilities & funding from local authorities to Manpower Services Commission] [declassified Aug 2013]
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