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| Description | Collection of memoranda, reports and some correspondence on the constitution, structure, policy and activities of the Department. Documents and papers include;
Aims and activities of the Colonial Department (draft), 1935.
Draft minute on training for appointments to the Colonial Service Education Departments, 1936.
Notes on preparing testimonials at the the end of the academic year (draft).
Correspondence between Arthur Mayhew, Colonial Office, Dr WB Mumford, and Fred Clarke on the training of probationers memo, 1936.
Recruitment and training of education officers memorandum prepared in the appointments department (Colonial Office), 1936.
Meeting with Sir Percy Nunn - points for discusion.
Records and information in the Colonial Department, document regarding the department library.
Memorandum on the expansion of the Colonial Department, discussing the resources gathered by the department and the possibility of publishing material in house.
Records and research: September 1936-July 1937, discussing the department library.
Memorandum on the Colonial Department library, its status and its organisation.
Notes on development of the Colonial Department 1935-1936, including number of students for that academic year.
Report of the Consultative Committee, including an account of the development, present organisation and activities of the Colonial Department; comments of the Consultative Committee and suggestions for placing the Department on a sound permanent basis; and recommended estimates, 1939.
Report on the Colonial Department, 1938-1939 (draft).
Memorandum on the development of the Colonial Department describing its rapid growth, some of its urgent needs and certain very pressing salary revisions, 1938-1939.
The Colonial Department: its work and its needs, 1938-1939 including staff salaries.
Journals course: list of suggested subjects.
The journals course, document explaining the purpose of the course, 1939-1940.
Notes of a meeting held to consider the work if the MEB Colonial Research section on February 16th at 11 am, 1940.
Arrangements for the Colonial Department, March 1940. Arrangements for the reconvening of the department's work after World War Two.
Personnel memo regarding French Forces (French), 1940.
Report on the work of the Colonial Department July - November 1940, describes the Department during wartime.
Colonial Department report on work and conditions in 1940.
Paper on a course set up by SOAS and the Colonial Department to initiate French men and women going to French Equatorial Africa in the civil service.
Additional report on the work of the Colonial department, 1941, including Colonial Review and courses.
Report on special colonial course, 1941.
Consultative committee for the Colonial Education course, notes on the meeting held 25 February 1941.
A brief history of the Colonial Department (Research and Information Section) since the appointment of Dr WB Mumford.
Margaret Read's notes on Professor Clarke's first draft of suggestions for the revision of training courses, 1942.
Review of courses of training for the Education Services.
Services performed by the research and information section of the Colonial Department .
Statement to accompany application for a renewal of the Colonial Office Grant towards the costs of the research and information section, with accompanying letter.
Memorandum for the Senate on Post-War plans for the Colonial Department. Suggested amendments under 5. Colonial Department.
Minutes on the present staffing of the Colonial Department, 1943.
Memorandum on plans for Colonial Department 1944-1945.
A statement of the services it can offer to the study of problems of education in the colonies and the training of teachers - its development in the future and its needs.
Report of the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies (ACEC), report of the Consultative sub committee, including post-war plans, statement of the services it can offer to the study of problems of education in the Colonies and the training of teachers - its development in the future and its needs, including note submitted by Keith on the question of accommondation of Colonial students in London, 1945.
Post war estimates (financial).
Post war problems and finance, Institute of Education. Part of annual report of University of London.
Notes for the director of the Institute of Education, Information section of the Colonial Department, 1945.
Memorandum on Colonial Department staff for 1945-1946.
Notes on the value of giving older and experienced people from countries in Africa an opportunity of taking courses in the UK, 1947.
Letter to former staff, students and friends from Margaret Read, discussing the past year, 1950.
The development of the Institute in relation to the Colonies. |