Board of Education and successors University Branch and Teachers Branch teacher training colleges files concerning the provision, maintenance and administration of teacher training colleges maintained by voluntary bodies, of colleges established by Local Education Authorities under the provisions of the Education Act 1902 and of a few university colleges providing similar training courses leading to a qualifying examination for recognition of students as certificated teachers.
Papers prior to 1932 relate only to hostels.
Many post Second World War papers are concerned with the establishment of emergency training colleges.
Pieces 639-676 encompass the 1960s period. This sample of files consists of the policy file for one college within each Area Training Organisation; a full set of files on a single specimen college, Wolverhampton Training College (Technical); and a few individual files of particular interest (pieces 647 and 674-676).