Correspondence and papers preserved in the University Branch dealing with matters affecting university charters and statutes referred to the Education Department by the Privy Council in cases involving endowments and educational foundations.
The files also contain material relating to the distribution of government grants to universities and university colleges prior to the establishment of the University Grants Committee in 1919.
Following the issue in 1944 of the McNair Report on the training of teachers and youth leaders, these records contain, inter alia, proposals on the formation of Area Training Organisations.