Ministry of Education, Further Education Branch

This page summarises records created by this Organisation

The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Date:	1944-1963
History:	Created in 1944 it handled all post-secondary education until divided into two in 1963.
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government (central)
References:	IC; NCA Rules
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C278650

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference
1	1901-1954: Board of Education, Technical Branch, and Ministry of Education, Further Education Branch: Evening Institutes, Registered Files (T and WT Series)	The National Archives, Kew	ED 41
2	1918-1946: Board of Education: Technical Branch: Local Education Authority Juvenile Unemployment Centres, later Juvenile Instruction Centres, Files	The National Archives, Kew	ED 45
3	1904-1969: Board of Education and successors: Technical Branch and Further Education Branch: Registered Files (T Series)	The National Archives, Kew	ED 46
4	1920-1968: Board of Education and successors: Technical Branch and successors: Local Education Authority Files	The National Archives, Kew	ED 51
5	1934-1954: Board of Education, Technical Branch, and Ministry of Education, Further Education Branch: Local Education Authority Teachers' Short Courses, Files	The National Archives, Kew	ED 61
6	1919-1967: Board of Education and successors: Technical Branch and successors: Local Authority Public Libraries, Files (T Series)	The National Archives, Kew	ED 64
7	1911-1970: Board of Education and successors: Technical Branch and Further Education Branch: Adult Education Residential College, Files	The National Archives, Kew	ED 68
8	1921-1969: Board of Education and successors: Technical Branch and Further Education Branch: Adult Education Tutorial Classes, Files	The National Archives, Kew	ED 73
9	1919-1947: Board of Education, Technical Branch, and Ministry of Education, Further Education Branch: Day Continuation Schools, Files	The National Archives, Kew	ED 75
10	1928-1955: Board of Education, Technical Branch, and Ministry of Education, Further Education Branch: Adult Education Vacation Courses, Files	The National Archives, Kew	ED 76
11	1923-1969: Board of Education and successors: Technical Branch and Further Education Branch: Adult Education, General Files	The National Archives, Kew	ED 80
12	1912-1947: Board of Education, Technical Branch, and Ministry of Education, Further Education Branch: Technical Schools, Files	The National Archives, Kew	ED 82
13	1897-1949: Board of Education, Technical Branch, and Ministry of Education, Further Education Branch: Art Schools, Files	The National Archives, Kew	ED 83
14	1907-1951: Board of Education: Technical Branch: Technical Colleges, Registered Files (T Series)	The National Archives, Kew	ED 90
15	1939-1974: Board of Education and successors: Further Education Branch and successors: Youth Welfare, General Registered Files (YW Series)	The National Archives, Kew	ED 124
16	1939-1977: Board of Education and successors: Further Education Branch and successors: Local Education Authority Youth Welfare, Registered Files (YW Series)	The National Archives, Kew	ED 126
17	1946-1967: Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Further Education Branch: Local Education Authority Schemes for Further Education, Registered Files (T Series)	The National Archives, Kew	ED 155
18	1936-1966: Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Further Education Branch: Building Programmes, Registered Files (T Series)	The National Archives, Kew	ED 160
19	1944-1970: Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Further Education Branch: National Colleges, Registered Files (T Series)	The National Archives, Kew	ED 165
20	1909-1990: Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Further Education Branch: Major Direct Grant Establishments, Registered Files (T Series)	The National Archives, Kew	ED 166
21	1931-1974: Department of Education and Science and predecessors: Technical Branch and Further Education Branch: Major Art Establishments, Registered Files (T Series)	The National Archives, Kew	ED 167
22	1923-1981: Department of Education and Science and predecessors: Technical Branch and Further Education Branch: Major Establishments, Registered Files (T Series)	The National Archives, Kew	ED 168
23	1937-1977: Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Further Education Branch: Adult Welfare, Registered Files (AW Series)	The National Archives, Kew	ED 169
24	1945-1964: Ministry of Education: Further Education Branch: Public Libraries, General Registered Files (A Series)	The National Archives, Kew	ED 171
25	1909-1974: Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Further Education Branch: Agricultural Education and Research, Registered Files (T, WDE, WT and AE Series)	The National Archives, Kew	ED 174
26	1943-1999: Department of Education and Science: Further Education Branch, later Further and Higher Education Branch: Registered Files (T and T/P Series)	The National Archives, Kew	ED 212
27	1873-1989: Records of the Technical Branch, the Further Education Branch, and the Youth Service