Files of correspondence with Local Education Authorities, including the Channel Islands, dealing with various aspects of the administration of elementary education.
This series of files was opened to contain papers concerned with the wider aspects of the administration of elementary education which were not common to the 'subject' files.
Papers relating to the considerations of the endowment, statements of income and expenditure, and classified lists of the endowments are included among the earlier papers.
Weeded papers from a discontinued series of early twentieth century Local Education Authority 'Act' and 'Finance' files, were added to the miscellaneous files in 1933, and this material forms the larger part of the records in the series. These papers dealt with problems in matters of finance and administration which confronted the newly formed Local Education Authorities on assuming their responsibilities under the Education Act, 1902. The papers reflect the opposition of certain authorities, particularly from some Welsh authorities, to this added responsibility.
Particular aspects dealt with in the papers include religious instruction; the board's observations on surcharges by district auditors; school libraries and prizes; the payment, appointment and dismissal of teachers; the delegation of powers by local authorities to education committees; appointment of managers; proposals to abolish school attendance officers and the degree of responsibility of Local Education Authorities to maintain voluntary and non provided schools. Whilst these subjects were common to a number of authorities there were also other matters raised by individual authorities on which the decisions were regarded as precedents.
Included in the small amount of post 1920 material are papers of particular interest relating to the Cambridgeshire Village College Scheme; The Jersey Education Bill, 1920; the installation of wireless receiving apparatus in schools and the examination of the cost per child figures for 1922/23.
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