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PDF 82 Jul 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT ("Guidance to the UGC") ["Keith Joseph's letter to the Chairman of the University Grants Committee setting out the Government's approach on major issues of university policy"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Jul 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Baker PS letter to No.10 (Micros for Primary Schools Scheme) [draft message from MT for enclosure in the publicity leaflet] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Aug 5 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Initial teacher training") ["Under the provisional allocation of places initial teacher training would end at 14 polytechnics and colleges in England. As a result, some of the institutions might well close... Inevitably, there will be considerable publicity"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Oct 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Brittan PS letter to Keith Joseph PS (private education) [transcript of Brittan's speech to be given at Carmel college on 28th October] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Nov 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to No.10 ("Initial teacher training: allocation of places to institutions") ["Parliamentary statement... on the allocation... for 1983, 1984 and 1985"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Research Councils ("The Science Budget") [reduction in grant & redeployment of funds] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (The Restructuring of the University System: an interim appraisal) ["in response to their reduced level of funding"; report for presentation to Parliament & release to media] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 82 Dec 21 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("1983-84 Advanced Further Education (AFE) Capped Pool Distribution") [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Academic tenure") ["proposals for extended probationary periods as well as for the inclusion of provision for redundancy in the contracts of employment of academics holding permanent employment... Government stands ready to facilitate such changes"; MT expresses reservations] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jan 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT ("H Paper: Specific Grant for Education") ["to influence LEA spending at the margin... to ensure... the Government's priorities take precedence"; MT: "We must sort out the rates question first"; Housing & Building Control Bill] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (The restructuring of the university system) [Professor Dorothy Hodgkin's views on numbers in UK higher education comparative to other Western countries] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("New specific grants for certain education expenditure") [annoucement] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("The Financing of Education") ["I believe it is a vital first step in reducing the size of local government expenditure that we should transfer some sizeable slice of the education bill to the Exchequer"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("The Financing of Education") [scheme to "transfer financial responsibility for teachers' salaries from local to central government" and "require local authorities to reduce their rate calls correspondingly"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 13 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph, Biffen, Baroness Cox, Parkinson, Waldegrave, Mount) [student loans; polytechnics; education vouchers] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 23 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to Gow (computers in schools) [key statistics] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Mar 31 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: MT letter to Baroness Cox (Polytechnic of North London) [concerns about political activities of student unions; proposed review body for health professionals] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Apr 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC): international subscriptions") ["faced with having to find several £m extra in 1983-84 to meet their unavoidable commitments" on account of exchange rates affecting overseas research funding; MT expresses doubts about merits of funding such research] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Rees ("Public Expenditure Survey 1983") ["substantial additional bids... necessary to sustain the policies in our Manifesto"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Whitelaw ("Education Support Grants") ["specific grants... in support of particular items of expenditure... Bill... drafting is well advanced... introduction as soon as Parliament reassembles... local authority associations... opposed in principle.. [but have] discussed... in a constructive way... two matters remain to be settled... the proportion of expenditure to be eligible for the new grants and the rate of grant itself"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 20 We Press Major Archive (TNA) Education: Department of Education & Science press release ("Education Secretary comments on HMI report") [quotes & copy of report] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Jul 28 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Flesher ("University funding") [proposal for Exchquer to match-fund money raised from private sources] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Aug 3 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Edwards letter to No.10 ("Report by HMI on the effects of local authority expenditure on Education in Wales") [notification of imminent publication; "managing the changes and demand pattern which have arisen in recent years against a background of restraint in public expenditure"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chairman of the University Grants Committee ("Development of a Strategy for Higher Education") ["will require continuing dialogue... Government's intention to reduce the share of GDP devoted to public expenditure... You recognise that fundamental changes need to be considered"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rees letter to Keith Joseph ("Public Expenditure Survey 1983 - bilaterals") ["Once we have identified the essential increases, I believe our main task must be to examine the scope for possible savings"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Raising standards in schools") [claims that required £50m in savings cannot be met if altered pay structure for teachers and changes to their conditions of service are to be implemented] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Sep 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rees letter to Keith Joseph (Public Expenditure Survey: education) [outline of agreement reached between Treasury and DES; issues outstanding; record of Rees/Joseph conversation] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph) [MT disparages proposed system of assessment of teachers' performances; public expenditure on higher education] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rees minute to MT ("Raising standards in schools") [Keith Joseph proposal/bid "poses serious difficulties... I frankly doubt whether we could really trust the employers to make candid assessments of the performance of their staff and back their judgement in public by pay differentials and disciplinary decisions"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 5 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (comparative costs of activities in education) [data requested for MT speech] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Butler ("Education: unit costs") [DES figures "misleadingly low"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("Raising standards in schools") [proposed draft MT reply to Keith Joseph proposal: "very sceptical about the proposal which amounts to giving people more for doing competently what they are paid to do anyway"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (Public Expenditure Survey: education) [difficulty arising from Keith Joseph's circulation to Cabinet colleagues of his correspondence with Rees] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Treasury briefing for MT ("PES: education. Prime Minister's meeting on 17 October") ["a note summarising the state of play on education and the main arguments on each side"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure Survey: education and science") ["Sir Keith may be willing to give way considerably on the long-term savings, and... the Chief Secretary may be willing to concede the necessity for some amount of additional expenditure in the short term"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 14 Fr Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 briefing for MT (Public Expenditure Survey: education and science) [handwritten cover note summarising briefing] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph, Peter Rees) [Public Expenditure Survey: education] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS briefing for MT ("1983 Survey") [Public Expenditure Survey: education] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Survey: education") ["you identify a number of issues on which the Prime Minister asked for more information": local authority capital expenditure; university capital expenditure; university student/staff ratios; number of teachers] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("Public Expenditure Survey: education") ["Several points of interest emerge from the DES minute of 21 October": local authority capital expenditure; university capital expenditure; university staff/student ratios; number of teachers] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Raising standards in schools") ["We all I think agree that pruning weak heads and teachers, more rigorous selection and training... and more effective management... are essential... The Chief Secretary recognises... the help a revised structure of pay and conditions of service would give towards this end"; MT "endorses... objective... [but] feels it would be wrong to pay teachers more for what they should be doing anyway"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Oct 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Whitelaw (MISC 99: Education and Science) [student grants] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Whitelaw ("MISC 99: Education and Science") [university current expenditure & proposed cuts; student grants] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (MISC 99) [current status of Keith Joseph negotiations on education budgets] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph) ["Public expenditure survey - education"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 3 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Turnbull ("Public expenditure survey: university current expenditure") [proposed compromise between MISC 99 recommended £50 million cut and Keith Joseph's resistance to it] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("Student grants") ["possible alternative packages": options] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Student Awards - alternative packages") [alternatives to Keith Joseph proposal] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (Public expenditure: universities) ["whether to endorse the proposed £50 million cut... in 1986/87 which the MISC 99 group is recommending"] [declassified Aug 2013]
PDF 83 Nov 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Public expenditure: universities") [argument against further savings] [declassified Aug 2013]

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