Archive

1988 Jan 7 - 1988 Mar 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2124
Education (General policy on education and education expenditure: Education Reform Bill; education in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland; financial delegation; grant maintained schools; national curriculum; future of Paisley Grammar School; charges forschool activities; opting out of Local Education Authority (LEA) control; religious education) (Part 17)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 405
Any docs withheld? 1

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88 Jan 29 Fr Major Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Charging for school activities") [proposals for Education Reform Bill in response to recent legal challenges] [declassified 2016]
88 Jan 31 Su Major Education: Baker PS letter to No.10 ("National curriculum: Task Group on assessment and testing") [MT concerned about initial report findings] [declassified 2016]
88 Jan 31 Su Minor Education: Baker minute to MT (Independent Jewish Day School) [MT constituency school's admission to maintained sector as voluntary aided school] [declassified 2016]
88 Feb 1 Mo Minor Education: Baker letter to Ridley ("Financial delegation to schools") [findings of independent report] [declassified 2016]
88 Feb 2 Tu Major Education: Major letter to Baker ("Grant maintained schools: compensation for dismissals") [declassified 2016]
88 Feb 15 Mo Major Education: No.10 letter to Baker PS ("Education Reform Bill: charging for school activities and powers of HE funding councils to require repayments") [declassified 2016]
88 Feb 16 Tu Major Education: Baker letter to Dr. Keith Hampson MP ("Grant-maintained schools") [efficacy of proposed parental ballot to approve a school's application for grant-maintained status] [declassified 2016]
88 Feb 19 Fr Major Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker) ["Mathematics curriculum working party"] [declassified 2016]
88 Feb 19 Fr Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("U.S. visit - schools: lessons for the UK") [findings from Professor Griffiths' visit] [declassified 2016]
88 Feb 19 Fr Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("National curriculum: Mathematics curriculum working party") ["The real danger we face is that the national curriculum which we will introduce will not raise standards but enshrine the shibboleths of a failed system."] [declassified 2016]
88 Feb 24 We Major Education: Baker letter to Hurd (Education Reform Bill) [Baker opposed to proposed statutory power for Commission for Racial Equality to issue code of practice on discrimination & equality in education] [declassified 2016]
88 Mar 8 Tu Major Education: No.10 minute to Tom King PS ("Education reform in Northern Ireland") [MT views on religious education and opting out of local authority control] [declassified 2016]
88 Mar 8 Tu Major Education: Tom King minute to MT ("Education reform in Northern Ireland") [consultative paper] [declassified 2016]
88 Mar 14 Mo Major Education: No.10 letter to Rifkind PS ("Opting out in Scotland") [scheme for schools to opt out of local authority control] [declassified 2016]
88 Mar 16 We Major Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("National Union of Students") [Conservative backbench proposal to give individual students free choice instead of default membership] [declassified 2016]
88 Mar 17 Th Major Education: King PS letter to No.10 (education reform in Northern Ireland) [religious education] [declassified 2016]
88 Mar 17 Th Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Schools in Scotland") ["Your action over Paisley Grammar has become a standard around which people can rally to the Party in Scotland"] [declassified 2016]
88 Mar 21 Mo Major Education: Baker minute to MT ("Education Reform Bill: Religious Education (RE)") [implications for teaching of Christianity, and RE in non-church schools] [declassified 2016]
88 Mar 24 Th Major Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Baker, Angela Rumbold) [the place of Christianity in religious education] [declassified 2016]
88 Mar 24 Th Major Education: Baker letter to Tom King ("Educational reform in Northern Ireland") [potential scope for Opposition to exploit King & Baker's differences over proposals in Bill] [declassified 2016]