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| Description | Minutes of meetings held January 1940 until February 1947. The following subjects are discussed at meetings (some at each meeting; for others there is minimal information):
Relocation of the Institute at Nottingham during the Second World War and return to London
Recruitment of students including interviews and selection
Examinations
Inspectors' reports
School practices
Work of the Delegacy
Students' Relief Fund
Student accommodation
Students' work
Distribution of work for teaching staff for the Diploma
Student / staff committee
English educational system
High Degree courses
Timetable for teaching
Dr Karl Mannheim's employment at the Institute and his death
Comparative Education
Establishment of the Foundation for Educational Research (the early papers of the NFER are catalogued at RefNo NFER)
Balance in subjects
Course for allied teachers (Poland and Belgium)
Salaries
Linguistics Course
Plans for 1944-1945
Courses and refresher courses for Australian and Canadian Forces - regarding the provision of courses for Canadian servicemen who would be in the country at the end of the war; also includes a note regarding a letter from a former student who was currently a prisoner of war asking for refresher courses once the war was over
Experimental schools
Firewatching - i.e. work of the group who protected the Institute building from bombs during air raids
Library
Work of Professor Hamley (Deputy Director) including visits abroad
Establishment of a School Relations Officer
Timetable for lectures and refresher courses
Probationary teaching practice
Staffing requirements
Summer school
Training provision for youth leadership
Student numbers
Co-operation with the Education Department at King's College London
Religious education
Policy and financial requirements for the quinquennium 1947-1952 with separate policies on Library, Child Development Department, course on English as a Foreign Language, higher degrees and research, new Chairs and Readerships, accommodation |