| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Description | Materials relating to the initial work of the Schools Committee of the British Computer Society (BCS), of which HMI was a member. It was originally referred to as Working Party B or WP4. The Schools Committee was founded in 1965 at the initiative of Miss Diana Laws of ICL and was chaired successively by Donnvan E Tagg, Frank Lovis, Les W Jackson, J David Tinsley and Bill Tagg. It consisted of computing teachers from schools, HFE colleges, teacher training and industry (ICL and IBM), and representatives from DES/HMI and universities. It aimed to represent those engaged in educational computing in the UK between 1967 to 1978, seeking support from government, industry and educational administrators for various initiatives.
Folder 1: Minutes of the meetings of the Schools' Committee, and its Executive subcommittee in its first four years, and associated papers.
Folder 2: Revised membership lists of the BCS Schools' Committee and minutes of the meetings of the Schools' Committee, and its Executive subcommittee from 1970.
Folder 3: A report by Mrs M M Barritt to BCS Schools' Committee on current work in computer education in UK, with associated papers.
Folder 4: Minutes and papers of the BCS School Committee's Working Party 4.
Folder 5: Papers of the BCS Schools' Committee's working party E, chaired by Dr Bill Tagg.
Folder 6: The terms of reference and work of the reconstituted working parties of the BCS Schools' Committee - mainly single papers highlighting the studies and tasks undertaken. |