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Catalogue description Department of Education and Science: Committee of Inquiry into the Teaching of Mathematics in Schools (Cockcroft Committee): Minutes and Papers
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| Title: | Department of Education and Science: Committee of Inquiry into the Teaching of Mathematics in Schools (Cockcroft Committee): Minutes and Papers |
| Description: |
This series contains the minutes and papers of the committee set up in 1978 to consider the teaching of mathematics in primary and secondary schools in England and Wales. |
| Date: | 1978-1981 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Department of Education and Science, Committee of Inquiry into the Teaching of Mathematics, 1978-1981 |
| Physical description: | 22 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
In 2004 Department for Education and Skills |
| Accruals: | Not accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Concerns raised by the Education, Arts and Home Office Sub-committee of the Parliamentary Expenditure Committee in their report of July 1977 led to the Secretary of State for Education and Science establishing an inquiry into the teaching of mathematics in primary and secondary schools, with particular regard to the skills required in further education, employment and adult life generally. The committee, under the chairmanship of Dr Wilfred H Cockcroft, vice chancellor of the New University of Ulster at Coleraine, met for the first time on 25 September 1978 and submitted its report jointly to the Secretary of State for Education and the Secretary of State for Wales on 10 November 1981. |
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