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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/730
Education (Policy on education expenditure; role of HM Inspectorate of Schools; management of higher education; computers in schools) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 304
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79 Jun 20 Wed Education: Carlisle letter to MT (expenditure on education) [request for meeting to discuss “problems facing the education service”] [declassified 2012]
79 Jul 4 Wed Education: No.10 record of conversation (“Note of a meeting between the Prime Minister and the Chief Secretary at 10 Downing Street on Wednesday, 4 July, at 1115”) [MT “sceptical about the no growth forecast”] [declassified 2012]
79 Jul 9 Mon Education: No.10 record of conversation (“Note of a meeting on education expenditure held at the House of Commons at 1930 on Monday 9 July”) [cuts] [declassified 2012]
79 Sep 11 Tue Education: MT letter to John Vaizey (public expenditure on higher education) [effect of cuts on student intake] [declassified 2012]
79 Sep 28 Fri Education: PS Carlisle letter to No.10 (teacher numbers) [concerns about teacher-pupil ratio] [declassified 2012]
80 Mar 31 Mon Education: No.10 minute to Department of Education and Science (Social Science Research Council funding) [“scope for further economies”] [declassified 2012]
80 Aug 5 Tue Education: Treasury & Department of Education and Science report (“Working Group on Schools Expenditure”) [MT: “not very happy” about proposals: recruiting higher quality personnel into key posts a cheaper and better option in her view] [declassified 2012]
80 Sep 18 Thu Education: No.10 letter to Scottish Office (scrutiny of HMI Inspectorate of Schools) [Prime Minister… [wants] a discussion on this subject with Education Ministers for Scotland, England and Wales”] [declassified 2012]
80 Oct 30 Thu Education: No.10 record of conversation (meeting to discuss the role of H.M. Inspectorates of Schools) [declassified 2012]
80 Nov 10 Mon Education: Rayner letter to Young (“HM Inspectorates of Schools”) [declassified 2012]
80 Nov 11 Tue Education: No.10 letter to Department of Education & Science (scrutiny of HMI Inspectorates of schools) [declassified 2012]
81 Mar 3 Tue Education: No.10 minute to MT (“Education Supply Day: Thursday 5 March”) [Opposition motion on education expenditure][declassified 2012]
81 Mar 5 Thu Education: Carlisle report (“Home and Social Affairs Committee: Management of Public Sector Higher Education”) [MT: “am delighted - this was long overdue”] [declassified 2012]
81 Mar 27 Fri Education: PS Carlisle letter to no.10 (note on redundancy arrangements for staff from Middlesex Polytechnic) [response to Daily Telegraph article] [declassified 2012]
81 Mar 30 Mon Education: No.10 letter to Department of Industry (“Micros in Schools”) [MT: “Britain’s greatest natural asset has always been the inventive genius of our people”] [declassified 2012]