Catalogue description Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Welsh Department and successors: Further Education, Registered Files (WT Series)

Registered files created in the Welsh Department of the Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science containing correspondence between the department and individual colleges and further education institutions in Wales.

The types of institutions concerned included farm institutes, colleges of technology, colleges of further education, outward bound schools, independent further education institutes and art colleges.The topics covered in these files are extensive and the educational emphasis was always on local needs rather than language.

Other more general files cover particular issues such as the standard and content of courses, provision of student accommodation and catering, and the distribution of technical colleges within Wales. There are also a number of files dealing with a proposal to set up a Welsh agricultural college.

Some earlier files in the WT Series are in ED 46

A few later files files can be found in ED 174

Department of Education and Science, Education Office for Wales, 1964-1970

Department of Education and Science, Welsh Education Office, 1970-1978

Ministry of Education, Welsh Department, 1944-1964