ED 731921-1969Board of Education and successors: Technical Branch and Further Education Branch: Adult Education Tutorial Classes, Files
Board of Education and successors Technical Branch and Further Education Branch files concerning the provision by universities and voluntary bodies recognised by the Board of Education under the Board of Education (Adult Education) Regulations 1924 as 'Responsible Bodies', of tutorial classes for adult education.
This series of files was started in 1927 and it absorbed a few earlier papers relating to applications by national associations for recognition
The files contain correspondence and interview memoranda concerned with, inter-alia, recognition; increased numbers in classes; 'Fourth Year' and 'Advanced' classes; and include HM Inspectors' reports and Annual Reports or financial statements submitted by the 'Responsible Bodies'.
The papers concern in addition to tutorial classes of three years duration, courses of a similar character related to a shorter period, ie terminal courses and university extension lectures.