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

Date	Value	Title
82 Nov 2 Tue		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]
82 Nov 2 Tue		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]
82 Nov 9 Tue		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]
82 Nov 10 Wed		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]
82 Nov 11 Thu		Education: No.10 letter to Keith Joseph PS ("Technical Colleges") [MT draft reply to written PQ following resolution of funding dispute] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 12 Fri		Education: Tebbit letter to Brittan ("The new Technical Education Initiative") [controversy over funding] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 6 Thu		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]
83 Feb 14 Mon		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 Apr 21 Thu		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 Apr 22 Fri		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 May 11 Wed		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]
83 Jun 29 Wed		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]
83 Oct 14 Fri		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]
83 Oct 19 Wed		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]
83 Oct 28 Fri		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]
83 Oct 31 Mon		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]
83 Nov 1 Tue		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 Nov 4 Fri		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]
83 Nov 8 Tue		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]
83 Nov 18 Fri		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]