Catalogue description Department of Education and Science and successors: Schools Branch 4: Registered Files (S4 series)

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Details of ED 289
Reference: ED 289
Title: Department of Education and Science and successors: Schools Branch 4: Registered Files (S4 series)
Description:

This series contains records on subjects including City Technology Colleges, grant-maintained schools, the registration and regulation of independent schools, testing and assessment, and Records of Achievement.

Date: 1987-2002
Related material:

See also ED 207

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: S4, S4C
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Education, 1992-1995

Department for Education and Employment, 1995-2001

Department of Education and Science, Schools Branch 4, 1988-1992

Physical description: 260 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2014 Department for Education

Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

Schools Branch 4 was created in 1988 and had four divisions: Division A was responsible for City Technology Colleges, independent schools, the assisted places scheme and music and ballet schools; Division B was responsible for grant-maintained schools; Division C was responsible for school examinations and later for long-term planning for school organization and for schools in special measures; Division D was responsible for testing and assessment, the Assessment of Performance Unit and Records of Achievement.

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