Archive

1988 Apr 6 - 1988 May 26
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2125
Education (General policy on education and education expenditure; Education Reform Bill; opting out of Local Education Authority (LEA) control in Scotland; position of National Union of Students (NUS); Christian education; admission to maintained schools;polytechnics; national curriculum issues; Higginson Report on future of 'A' levels) (Part 18)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Jul 21
Classification: Secret
Page count: 262
Any docs withheld? 1

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88 Apr 19 Tu Major Education: Baker letter to Ridley ("Education Reform Bill: Advanced Further Education pooling") [shared costs] [declassified 2016]
88 Apr 26 Tu Major Education: Baker minute to MT ("1. National Curriculum: Working Groups for English and for Design and Technology 2. Publication of the Report of the Kingman committee on English") [declassified 2016]
88 Apr 8 Fr Major Education: Baker minute to MT ("Admission of pupils to Maintained Schools") [open enrolment - implementation target date] [declassified 2016]
88 May 9 Mo Major Education: Baker minute to MT ("Admission of pupils to Maintained schools") [reasons for delay in implemetation of Education Bill provisions on open enrolment] [declassified 2016]
88 Apr 15 Fr Major Education: Baker minute to MT ("National Union of Students") [review of local student union affiliations to NUS] [declassified 2016]
88 May 15 Su Minor Education: Baroness Cox letter to MT ("The Education Reform Bill: composition of governing bodies for polytechnics and colleges") ["I thought I should alert you urgently to the latest duplicity from the DES"] [declassified 2016]
88 Apr 13 We Key Education: Baroness Cox MP & colleagues letter to MT (Christian content of religious education) [proposed amendents to Education Reform Bill] [declassified 2016]
88 May 26 Th Major Education: Lord Thorneycroft letter to MT (Religious Education in schools) [cover letter for minute on how Education Reform Bill should address conflicting views] [declassified 2016]
88 Apr 8 Fr Major Education: Michael Alison MP letter to MT ("Christian religious education in schools") [meeting with MT to discuss amendments to Education Reform Bill] [declassified 2016]
88 May 6 Fr Major Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting of E(EP): 12 May") [Inner London Education Authority] [declassified 2016]
88 Apr 13 We Major Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting of E(EP): 14 April") [English in the National Curriculum; Design & Technology; Working Group on Welsh] [declassified 2016]
88 May 18 We Major Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting of E(EP): 19 May") [Higginson Report on 'A' Levels] [declassified 2016]
88 May 24 Tu Major Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting of E(EP): 25 May") [assessment & testing: Manifesto commitments] [declassified 2016]
88 May 20 Fr Major Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting of E(EP): 25 May") [assessment & testing] [declassified 2016]
88 Apr 19 Tu Major Education: No.10 briefing for MT ("Opting out in Scotland") [local education authority control of schools] [declassified 2016]
88 May 19 Th Major Education: No.10 minute to MT ("Academic tenure: vote in the Lord") [Labour amendment to Education Reform Bill to ensure academic freedom of speech] [declassified 2016]
88 May 13 Fr Major Education: No.10 minute to MT ("Education - Maintained schools and polytechnics") [MT concerns about aspect of Education Reform Bill] [declassified 2016]
88 May 25 We Major Education: No.10 note for the record ("Six monthly monitoring meetings on Education") [Baker prefers bilateral meetings with MT; No.10 agrees] [declassified 2016]
88 May 25 We Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("E(EP) Assessment and Testing") [Griffiths policy disagreement with Baker] [declassified 2016]
88 May 13 Fr Major Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Admission of pupils to Maintained schools") [frustration with DES timescale for implementation of Education Bill open enrolment provisions] [declassified 2016]