Catalogue description Department of Education and Science: Finance Branch: Registered Files (F Series)

Registered files of the Finance Branch of the Department of Education and Science.

Files cover subjects including: public expenditure policy on museums and galleries, Arts Council, British Library and educational buildings; correspondence with local authorities relating to educational expenditure; correspondence on the abolition of admission charges for museums and galleries; Rate Support Grant; educational building controls; financing of student unions; Public Expenditure Survey Committee (PESC) proposal for the reduction of expenditure on education (1971-1975); Russell Committee on Adult Education; school building programmes; devolution to Scotland and Wales of educational services; higher education into the 1990s; school meals services; education provision for 16 to 19 year olds; effects of public expenditure cuts; university teachers' pay; overseas students fees; Council of Local Education Authorities Expenditure Steering Group for Education Services.

Committee on Adult Education, 1969-1972

Department for Education, 1992-1995

Department for Education and Employment, 1995-2001

Department for Education and Skills, 2001-2007

Department of Education and Science, 1964-1992

From 1998 Department for Education and Employment