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1982 Jul 5 - 1983 Dec 19
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1012
Education (Policy on education expenditure; raising standards in schools) (Part 3)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 348
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83 Mar 1 Tu Major Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT (The restructuring of the university system) [Professor Dorothy Hodgkin's views on numbers in UK higher education comparative to other Western countries] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 17 Mo Major Education: Keith Joseph PS briefing for MT ("1983 Survey") [Public Expenditure Survey: education] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 21 Tu Minor Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("1983-84 Advanced Further Education (AFE) Capped Pool Distribution") [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Aug 5 Th Major Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Initial teacher training") ["Under the provisional allocation of places initial teacher training would end at 14 polytechnics and colleges in England. As a result, some of the institutions might well close... Inevitably, there will be considerable publicity"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 10 Th Major Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("New specific grants for certain education expenditure") [annoucement] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 21 Fr Major Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Public Expenditure Survey: education") ["you identify a number of issues on which the Prime Minister asked for more information": local authority capital expenditure; university capital expenditure; university student/staff ratios; number of teachers] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 5 We Minor Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (comparative costs of activities in education) [data requested for MT speech] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 21 Tu Major Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 (The Restructuring of the University System: an interim appraisal) ["in response to their reduced level of funding"; report for presentation to Parliament & release to media] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 31 Th Major Education: MT letter to Baroness Cox (Polytechnic of North London) [concerns about political activities of student unions; proposed review body for health professionals] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 14 Fr Minor Education: No.10 briefing for MT (Public Expenditure Survey: education and science) [handwritten cover note summarising briefing] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Mar 23 We Major Education: No.10 minute to Gow (computers in schools) [key statistics] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jul 6 Tu Major Education: No.10 minute to MT ("Guidance to the UGC") ["Keith Joseph's letter to the Chairman of the University Grants Committee setting out the Government's approach on major issues of university policy"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 25 Tu Major Education: No.10 minute to MT ("H Paper: Specific Grant for Education") ["to influence LEA spending at the margin... to ensure... the Government's priorities take precedence"; MT: "We must sort out the rates question first"; Housing & Building Control Bill] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 2 We Major Education: No.10 minute to MT (MISC 99) [current status of Keith Joseph negotiations on education budgets] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 12 We Major Education: No.10 minute to MT (Public Expenditure Survey: education) [difficulty arising from Keith Joseph's circulation to Cabinet colleagues of his correspondence with Rees] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 4 Fr Major Education: No.10 minute to MT (Public expenditure: universities) ["whether to endorse the proposed £50 million cut... in 1986/87 which the MISC 99 group is recommending"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 14 Fr Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Public Expenditure Survey: education and science") ["Sir Keith may be willing to give way considerably on the long-term savings, and... the Chief Secretary may be willing to concede the necessity for some amount of additional expenditure in the short term"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 6 Th Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Butler ("Education: unit costs") [DES figures "misleadingly low"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jul 28 Th Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Flesher ("University funding") [proposal for Exchquer to match-fund money raised from private sources] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Nov 4 Fr Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Student Awards - alternative packages") [alternatives to Keith Joseph proposal] [declassified Aug 2013]