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1982 Oct 25 - 1983 Dec 23
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1010
Education (Training colleges; extension of technical and vocational education; National Training Commission; responsibility for work related training) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 255
Any docs withheld? 5

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83 Dec 23 Fr Major 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]
83 Oct 19 We Major 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]
82 Nov 10 We Major 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]
83 Feb 14 Mo Major 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]
83 Dec 20 Tu Major 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]
83 Nov 1 Tu Major 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]
83 Apr 21 Th Major 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]
83 May 11 We Major 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]
82 Nov 12 Fr Major Education: Tebbit letter to Brittan ("The new Technical Education Initiative") [controversy over funding] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 28 Fr Major 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]
82 Nov 2 Tu Major 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]
83 Apr 22 Fr Major 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]
83 Dec 15 Th Major 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]
83 Jun 29 We Major 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]