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StorageSiteUCL Institute of Education
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Reference Number UWT/D/3/23
Title[Post war educational reconstruction]
Date1941 - 1945
DescriptionCorrespondence between the NUWT, the Board of Education, Local Education Authorities, and NUWT members regarding post war educational reconstruction.
This covers:
Requests for copies of the NUWT publication on post war education
1942 NUWT deputation to the Board of Education on the distribution of the Boards Memorandum on post war reconstruction and on the supply of teachers
NUWT criticisms of the exclusion of the NUWT, and various other teaching organisations, from receiving previews of the Board of Education memorandum on post war educational reconstruction
Replies from MPs to the NUWT plan for post war educational reconstruction
Information from NUWT members on the work they have done promoting the NUWT plan for post war education
News of meetings organised by NUWT branches to discuss post war education
Responses from Local Education Committees to the NUWT views on post war education
Arrangements for NUWT meetings to discuss the Governemnt White Paper on education - includes correspondence with the speakers, Mr. C. W. Key (MP), Dr. Edith Summerskill (MP) and Amy Teece (NUWT)
Raising of the school leaving age

Reports and publications including:
'Education after the war - a plan for post-war education', NUWT, 1943
Responses from the Council for Educational Advance, the Association of Education Committees, National Association of Head Teachers, National Association of Schoolmasters and other educational organisations to the Government White Paper on Educational Reconstruction
Reports from various political party groups in response to the Government plans for post war education

Press cuttings and articles regarding:
Supply of teachers
Post war education
Responses to Government White Paper
'The Woman Teacher', 30/07/1943, 24/09/1943

Government Bills, statutory rules and orders regarding educational reconstruction. These include:
'Educational Reconstruction', Board of Education, 1943
Education Act 1944
'Educational Reconstruction in Northern Ireland', 1944

Hansard Parliamentary Debates from 1942 - 1945 - all include discussion relevant to post war educational reconstruction
Extent2 folders
AccessStatusOpen

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