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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 12 Mo Major Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Responsibility for work-related training in the further education sector") [transfer of funding & responsibilities from local authorities to Manpower Services Commission] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr Major Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Training for Jobs") ["development of Youth Training Scheme... further improvements in adult skill training"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 16 Fr Major Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT (Responsibility for work-related training in the further education sector) [transfer of funding from local authorities to Manpower Services Commission; transfer of job centres to Department of Employment] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 18 Fr Major Education: Cabinet Office minute to MT (Responsibility for Work-Related Training in the Further Education Sector) [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]
83 Oct 14 Fr Major 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 Nov 4 Fr Major 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]
82 Nov 2 Tu Major 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]
83 Dec 21 We Minor Education: Manpower Services Commission letter to King PS (White Paper on Training) [timing of publication] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 8 Tu Major 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 Dec 16 Fr Major Education: No.10 briefing for MT (Responsibility for work-related training in the further education sector) [transfer of funding from local authorities to Manpower Services Commission; transfer of job centres to Department of Employment] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 11 Th Major Education: No.10 letter to Keith Joseph PS ("Technical Colleges") [MT draft reply to written PQ following resolution of funding dispute] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 6 Th Major 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 Nov 18 Fr Major 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]
83 Dec 19 Mo Major Education: No.10 minute to MT (meeting on 21st December to discuss work-related training in the education sector) [Lord Bellwin to deputise for Environment Secretary due to clash with Rate Limitation Bill press conference] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 9 Tu Major 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]
83 Dec 16 Fr Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Changing the Manpower Services Commission") [transfer of work-related futher education funding from local authorities to MSC; transfer of job centres to Department of Employment] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fr Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("E(A) papers for 13 December") [Training for Jobs] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 14 We Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Meeting with Keith Joseph on Thursday, 15 December") [new policy for schools; proposed changes in role of Manpower Services Commission; agricultural research] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 31 Mo Major 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 Dec 12 Mo Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("YTS and unemployed 17-year-olds in 1984/85") [Manpower Services Commission should "squeeze the 90,000 unemployed 17-year-olds into some kind of occupation by 1985"] [declassified Aug 2013]