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1979 May 14 - 1981 Oct 14
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/732
Education (Secondary school education; legislation to remove the compulsion for comprehensive education; the Education Bill; local authority arrangements for school curriculum) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 236
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Date Value Title
79 May 18 Fr Major Education: Carlisle letter to St. John-Stevas (Bill removing obligation on local authorities to introduce comprehensive schools) [declassified 2012]
79 Aug 14 Tu Major Education: No.10 letter to Department of Education (school curriculum) [MT unconvinced about need for consultation with local authorities] [declassified 2012]
79 Sep 11 Tu Major Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Carlisle, Young: school curriculum) [Carlisle urges curriculum changes require consultation] [declassified 2012]
79 Sep 12 We Major Education: Scholar note to MT (“Education Bill”) [second reading of the Bill] [declassified 2012]
79 Dec 20 Th Major Education: Carlisle minute to MT (HMI survey on secondary education) [MT sceptical of Carlisle’s argument for the value of the survey] [declassified 2012]
80 Jan 4 Fr Major Education: PS Carlisle letter to No.10 (framework for the school curriculum) [consultation document] [declassified 2012]
80 Apr 22 Tu Major Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Young, Carlisle: outstanding section 13 proposals) [politically sensitive issue in advance of local elections] [declassified 2012]
81 Feb 2 Mo Minor Education: Conservative Research Department (“The Education Bill 1981 (Special Educational Needs) brief for the second reading on Monday February 2nd”) [declassified 2012]
81 Mar 4 We Major Education: No.10 letter to Department of Education (guidance paper on school curriculum) [“[MT] concerned to find no reference to computer science or technology”] [declassified 2012]
81 Apr 24 Fr Minor Education: Boyson MP letter to MT (qualifications of school leavers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland) [“I believe the changed form of secondary school education in England and Wales must have been a major influence on these figures”] [declassified 2012]
81 Oct 14 We Major Education: PS Carlisle letter to No.10 (“Review of the School Council for Curriculum and Examinations”) [case for the Council’s continued existence and its role in curriculum development] [declassified 2012]