Catalogue description Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Statistics Branch, Later Statistics Division of Planning Branch: Registered Files (ST and SBCP Series)

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Reference: ED 189
Title: Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science: Statistics Branch, Later Statistics Division of Planning Branch: Registered Files (ST and SBCP Series)
Description:

Selected registered files from a small unit within the Planning Branch, later the Statistics Branch relating to the collection and presentation of statistics required by the Ministry of Education and Department of Education and Science.

Subjects covered include the the provision of teachers, the means of measuring curricula in secondary schools; the collection of statistics on university students and staff, and their use in appraising shortages of, for example, science and technology graduates; the collection and analysis of statistics for students in further education establishments, immigrant pupils; and specific research projects.
Date: 1961-1990
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: ST and SBCP file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Education and Science, Planning Branch, 1965-1972

Department of Education and Science, Research and Intelligence Branch, 1964-1965

Department of Education and Science, Statistics Branch, 1971-1981

Ministry of Education, Research and Intelligence Branch, 1961-1964

Ministry of Education, Statistics Branch, 1960-1961
Physical description: 49 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1988 Department of Education and Science
Accruals: Series is accruing.
Publication note:

Annual reports of the Board of Education and its successor, the Ministry of Education, were published as Parliamentary Papers. A complete series of these and Statistics of Education may be seen, subject to prior application to the Librarian, at the headquarters of the Department of Education and Science.
Administrative / biographical background:

Until 1960 (except for the period of the Second World War, when no report was produced), educational statistics were annexed to the annual report of the Board of Education and its successor, the Ministry of Education.

The effects of the Education Act 1944 led to a demand for more detailed statistics and, since 1961, these have been published separately under the title Statistics of Education.

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