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1984 Jan 3 - 1985 Feb 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1469
Education (General policy on education and education expenditure: White Paper on Schools) (Part 4)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 327
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85 Feb 28 Th Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("White Paper on Schools") [endorsement; summary of key points] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 26 Tu Major Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("White Paper on Schools Policy") [background; summary; publication; teachers' strike] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 22 Fr Major Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Teachers: In-Service Training") [coordination, timing & presentation of YTS & teacher training funding announcements] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 21 Th Major Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Teachers: In-Service Training") [connections with Lord Young's proposed training scheme for teachers on lessons & principles of TVEI] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 18 Mo Major Education: Fowler letter to Keith Joseph ("Review of Student Support") [request to be kept in loop, for social security implications] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 11 Mo Major Education: No.10 minute to Keith Joseph PS (meeting with the Prime Minister on 12 March) [confirmation of meeting with Keith Joseph, Baroness Cox, Dr. John Marks and Prof. Arthur Pollard] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 31 Th Major Education: Keith Joseph letter to Rees ("Management of Higher Education") [academic tenure; change within existing resources; closures; demand for higher education; closure of pharmacy department at Heriot-Watt] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 30 We Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("H Committee: In-Service Training for Teachers") ["proposals should be accepted only if... money can be found from within the existing education budget"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 30 We Major Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chairman of the National Advisory Body ("Future Planning of Higher Education") [reconstitution of National Advisory Board; guidance for NAB on Government's concerns & priorities] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 30 We Major Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chairman of the University Grants Committee ("Future Planning of Higher Education") [student numbers; subject balance; research; rationalisation; staffing; recurrent grant; external financing; capital receipts; efficiency; cooperation with National Advisory Board ] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 23 We Major Education: Keith Joseph letter to Peter Rees ("Review of Student Support") [postgraduate awards; UK-wide joint consultative paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 17 Th Major Education: Keith Joseph letter to Lord Young ("Provision for Students") [Lord Young's proposed restriction on entitlement to supplementary benefits] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 3 Th Major Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Keith Joseph) [industrial action by teachers; in-service training costs; Bill to re-allocate powers between education authorities, parents & teachers; review of student support; academic tenure/compensation for early redundancy; academic terms; funding for engineering & technology studies; Research Council] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 2 We Major Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Keith Joseph") [higher education policy; the "Switch"; science budget; student support; Research Council; teachers' pay, assessment & training; Education block grant; teaching of 'economic facts of life' ] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 28 Fr Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Provision for Students") [savings to be made on restrictions to welfare benefits, balanced against repercussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 28 Fr Major Education: Tim Flesher minute to MT ("School Standards and Spending") [DES statistical bulletin indicates high-spending education authorities do not produce better results; MT agrees to No. 10 asking DES to conduct further research] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 21 Fr Major Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Management of Higher Education") [National Advisory Board plans for local authority higher education & Government grant-aided colleges; Ministerial Guidance for University Grants Committee & universities; Government priorities for higher education; radical alternatives for the planning & control of universities] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 21 Fr Major Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Review of Student Support") [MT not satisfied with proposed terms of review] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 5 We Major Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Student Awards - Proposed Ministerial Statement") [text, announcing withdrawal of proposal that parents should make a contribution to tuition fees, and compensatory savings made by Government to address the financial shortfall; consultation on radical change to student support system] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Dec 4 Tu Major Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Whitelaw, Keith Joseph, Rees, Garel Jones) ["Student Grants": Backbenchers pressure on Government to withdraw proposals; discussion of options] [declassified Dec 2014]