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PDF 82 Mar 25 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 note to MT (Schools Council) [abolition proposal: "Nicholas Edwards feels that... any gain will not be worth the fuss"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 5 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to Whitelaw ("Management of Local Authority Higher Education") ["I am proposing to defer activation of the long-term policy... until some assessment of the effectiveness of the... [National Advisory Board]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 7 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to Edwards PS ("Education, Science and Arts Committee: Second Report, Session 1981-82") [first Government reply to Second Report of Parliamentary Committee] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to Edwards PS ("Schools Council") [draft Statement to Parliament on the future of Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Apr 22 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT ("Abolition of the Schools Council") [report on Keith Joseph's statement to Parliament] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 May 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Education, Science and Arts Committee: Government Reply to the Second Report") [first Government response to recommendations in Second Report of Parliamentary Committtee] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 82 Aug 31 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to No.10 (Secondary School Curriculum and Examinations) [second Government response to recommendations in Second Report of Parliamentary Committtee] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Jan 28 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT ("H Committee: Reform of the Schools Council") [progress report] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Apr 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger statement to Parliament ("Reform of School Curriculum and Assessment in Scotland") [details of implementation] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Jun 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (raising standards in schools) [Departmental policy paper for MT's attention; MT critical of paper & requests meeting with Permanent Secretary] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Jun 29 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 minute to MT (National Council of Educational Standards research report) ["provide[s] valuable support for the Government's emphasis on more accountability of teachers and more information about school performance so that parents can make proper choices"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Jul 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, David Hancock) [raising standards in schools: MT's "feeling that the staff of the Department of Education and Science... did not feel inclined or capable of tackling the basic problems"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Jul 19 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Department of Education letter to No.10 ("Standards in Education and Comprehensive Schools") ["We should not expect rapid progress"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Making Schools Better") ["exciting list of proposals... [must] not let them be eroded by the quibbles already surfacing in the officials' note"; MT agrees] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Making Schools Better") [outline of key aims & strategy] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 83 Dec 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Making Schools Better") ["It is important to bolster Keith Joseph's enthusiasm for his new policies, in order to reduced the risk of DES backsliding. You may therefore wish to press home a number of points"] [declassified Jan 2014]
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 ["real danger that his proposals will be watered down by the DES"]; proposed changes in role of MSC; agricultural research] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 10 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Jenkin ("Draft Circular on Teacher Training") ["to establish a Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education"; MT agrees with Jenkin concern of creating impression "that we expect local authorities to contain extra expenditure within the existing PES provision... particularly... when the Rates Bill is before Parliament"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 Apr 27 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph) ["Raising Standards in Education"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Raising Standards in Schools") [regarding 27 April record of conversation: "to clarify one or two points": performance-related pay increments; improving mediocre teachers at reasonable cost; pilot project to test integrity of professional appraisal system] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("School Government: Green Paper") ["admirably fulfils the remit agreed by [you]... [gives] parents majority control over the governing bodies of 'county' schools, and near-control of 'controlled' schools"; other key points] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (School Government: Green Paper) ["a key element is to give parents the dominant voice in the government of most schools"; copy of draft Paper attached] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Liverpool") ["I now have to reach a decision on a controversial set of proposals from Liverpool to close all its existing 25 county secondary schools and to establish 17 new... comprehensive schools... I thought I should let you know what I propose"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Schools in Liverpool") ["The Council's proposal is... Socialist schooling, neighbourhood comprehensives for all, with no choice for anyone... acceptance of the proposal - even if it is a political necessity - will be an educational disaster"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Biffen, Brittan, Heseltine, Jenkin, Rees, Boyson) ["Secondary Education in Liverpool"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Liverpool") [analysis of Government options for addressing City Council's statutory proposals; conclusion] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Education in Liverpool") ["Keith is still understating the appalling educational consequences of accepting Liverpool's proposals"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Keith Joseph, Whitelaw, Biffen, Brittan, Tom King, Jenkin, Rees, Havers) ["Education in Liverpool": MT: "City Council's proposals... even worse than she had feared"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Raising Standards in Schools") ["a note about what we can learn from France and Germany about the school curriculum"] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (improvement in the 16+ examinations) [update on policy development] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Attorney General letter to Keith Joseph (Secondary Education in Liverpool) [advice on legal power to modify Liverpool Education Authority proposals] [declassified Jan 2014]
PDF 84 May 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Brittan, Keith Joseph, Jenkin, Biffen, Heseltine, Tebbit, Tom King, Rees, Havers, Redwood) ["Liverpool City Council": statutory proposals for reorganisation of County secondary schools; Government grants/Urban Programme; legal action to disqualify Councillors; Commissioners Bill] [declassified Jan 2014]
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