Catalogue description Further Education, Local Education Authority Fees and Scholarship Files

Alphabetically in county order for England and Wales, later files are arranged alphabetically in county and county borough order.

As a consequence of the financial crisis of 1931, the Board of Education was required to examine the arrangements made by local education authorities to give assistance by means of scholarships and remission of fees, to students undertaking courses of secondary or further education.

The purpose was to obtain information as to the nature and extent of the scheme administered by education authorities for providing aid to students in schools, institutes and colleges and to consider the manner by which economies could be effected and the demand upon public moneys reduced.

The board's review of arrangements made under the Regulations for Further Education brought into focus the lack of uniformity among the various schemes which were in operation throughout the country and indicated the need to introduce some degree of consistency in the general administration.

As a means of economy without damage to the structure of further education, a system of graduated scales of fees for full time students was recommended, providing some measure of uniformity and a means of increasing the income from fees by the assessment of a student's financial circumstances to determine whether a need existed for total or partial remission of fees.