Catalogue description Wales Advisory Body for Local Authority Higher Education: Committee and Wales Advisory Body (WAB): Minutes and Papers

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Title: Wales Advisory Body for Local Authority Higher Education: Committee and Wales Advisory Body (WAB): Minutes and Papers
Description:

This series contains the minutes and papers of the main Committee of the Wales Advisory Body for Local Authority Higher Education (WABLHE), and its successor the Wales Advisory Body (WAB).

The records relate to subjects dealt with by the Committee, included planning exercises, funding of research programmes, relations with the Council for National Academic Awards, teaching through the medium of Welsh and approval of courses.
Date: 1982-1991
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
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Wales Advisory Body for Local Authority Higher Education, Committee, 1982-1988

Wales Advisory Body for Local Authority Higher Education, Wales Advisory Body, 1988-1991
Physical description: 40 files and papers
Access conditions: Subject to 10 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

The Committee was set up in 1982 to fulfil the function of the Wales Advisory Body for Local Authority High Education (WABLAHE) to advise the Secretary of State for Wales on the management and funding of local authority higher and further education and teacher training.

In 1988 following the Education Reform Bill the terms of reference for WABLAHE were changed with greater emphasis being put on planning and funding. The areas of responsibility covered by the Committee included planning exercises, funding of research activities, relations with Council for National Academic Awards, future strategy, speech therapy, Welsh language and approval of courses. The Committee became known as the Wales Advisory Body (or WAB).

The WAB was wound up following the setting up of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the Further Education Funding Council for Wales in 1992.

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