Catalogue description Department of Education and Science: Computer Assisted Learning Programme Committee: Agenda, Minutes and Papers

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Reference: ED 264
Title: Department of Education and Science: Computer Assisted Learning Programme Committee: Agenda, Minutes and Papers
Description:

Papers of the Computer Assisted Learning Programme Committee which comprise reports on the programme and various separate projects within the programme.

Also contains minutes and papers relating to the Sub-Committee on Educational Evaluation.
Date: 1972-1977
Arrangement:

Chronological.
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Education and Science, Computer Assisted Learning Programme Committee, 1972-1977

Department of Education and Science, Sub-Committee on Educational Evaluation, 1976-1977
Physical description: 26 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 1998 Department for Education and Employment
Selection and destruction information: All files were selected
Accruals: No future accruals expected
Administrative / biographical background:

The Computer Assisted Learning Programme was an interdepartmental body set up in 1972 as a result of he proposal for a national development programme in computer assisted learning. The Secretary of State for Education and Science was solely responsible for the programme.

The committee comprised representatives from each interested government department and was chaired by Deputy Under-Secretary for Education and Science, Mr. J.A. Hudson.

The terms of reference for the Committee were to advise the Secretary of State on the content and implementation of the development programme in computer assisted learning.

In 1977 the committee was wound up and its functions and responsibilities were passed to the Council for Educational Technology (CET).

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