Catalogue description Welsh Office: Education Department, Schools Division: Registered Files (PSE series)

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Reference: BD 126
Title: Welsh Office: Education Department, Schools Division: Registered Files (PSE series)
Description:

This series consists of registered files relating to the use of the Welsh language throughout the education sector and the inclusion of Welsh in the National Curriculum; drug education in Wales; local management of schools; impact of local government reorganisation on education services; and the education of gypsies and travellers.
Date: 1978-1998
Arrangement:

The records are arranged chronologically in file prefix order.
Related material:

See also:

BD 91

BD 84
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PSE series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and Welsh
Creator:

Welsh Office, Education Department, 1978-1999
Physical description: 68 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 2018 Welsh Office
Custodial history: The records were held at Cathays Park 2, Cardiff, Wales, and at the Welsh Office, Neptune Point storage facility in Ocean Way, Cardiff, Wales.
Accumulation dates: 1980 to 1998
Selection and destruction information: RCP, s.3.1.1 - the principal policies and actions of the UK central government and the English and Welsh Governments. Section 5.9 of OSP 7 (Welsh Office) – Education and Training. Records were selected relating to use of the Welsh language throughout the education sector Section 5.13.4 of OSP 7 (Welsh Office) – Local Government Records were selected relating to education policy making during Local Government Reorganisation and the introduction of new unitary authority boundaries.
Accruals: No further accruals are anticipated.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Welsh Office Education Department comprised five divisions from 1978. These were:

Schools Division, covering the administration of all government policy concerning nursery, primary and secondary education, maintained voluntary independent schools in Wales except building programmes; matters relating to the curiculum and examinations.

Further Education Division 1, covering higher education; supply and training of teachers; liaison with the University of Wales, UGC and CNAA; tuition fees and other student matters.

Further Education Division 2, covering non advanced further education; 16-19 year old educational provision in general; student grants; liaison with the Manpower Services Commission; adult education (Including State Bursaries); youth service; grants for village halls and community centres.

Education Services Division, covering educational building; school meals, milk, transport and other benefits, publications; statistics, research ; external relations.

HM Inspectorate, covering professional advice to the Secretary of State on all educational matters; assessing the educational process in all educational institutions other than universities through the inspection and reporting; specialist and general advice to teachers, institutions and local education authorities, through visits, courses and publications; liaison with local education authorities and other statutory and voluntary bodies concerned with education.

In 1984, responsibility for Welsh Language moved to the Education Services Division. In 1992 all matters relating to the National Curriculum in Wales moved to the Schools Curriculum division. In 1995 the Education Services division was disbanded with Welsh language issues being transferred to the new Culture and Recreation Division.

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