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| Description | 'Indictment of Margaret Thatcher' regarding Thatcher's role as Secretary of State for Education, by FORUM, September 1973
'What is Mrs Thatcher up to? An examination of the attitude of the present Secretary of State towards the reform of secondary education and the disruptive effect of her decisions on the abolition of selection at 11 plus and the introduction of comprehensive education' by the National Union of Teachers (NUT) November 1972
'Thatcher's Third Tier, or Bribery and Corruption' draft of an article by Brian Simon regarding proposals for the establishment of City Technical Colleges and the option for schools to opt out of Local Education Authority (LEA) control
Typescript notes by Simon on City Technical Colleges (CTCs), Grant Maintained Schools (GMs)
Papers from the City Technology Colleges Trust regarding the planned opening of CTC's in England and Scotland
'City Technology Centres a new choice of school' by the Department of Education and Science (DES)
'Our changing schools. A handbook for parents', by the DES [1988]
'Grant Maintained Schools. The New Choice in Education'
'Losing an empire, finding a role the LEA of the future' Occasional Paper by the Audit Commission
'Grant Maintained Schools: independence or isolation?' by the Association of Metropolitan Authorities, November 1988
'Opting into an uncertain future: grant maintained schools' by Michael Flude and Merril Hammer, June 1989
'Researching grant maintained schools' by David Halpin and John Fitz, October 1989
Papers from Local Schools Information, which was set up by the Local Government Information Unit to provide a source of independent information regarding grant maintained schools. Includes correspondence from Brian Simon to Martin Rogers, Unit Co-ordinator
Papers read at the Education Reform Act Research Network seminar series held 12 March 1990
Details of schools that had been given approval to "opt out" of LEA control at 9 March 1990
Press releases issued from the Grant Maintained Schools Trust
'Standards in education 1988-1989', annual report of HM Senior Chief Inspector of Schools, January 1990
'National Curriculum from policy to practice' DEC 1989
'Does the national curriculum rest on a mistake? The case of English' by Michael Armstrong
Articles on the Educational Reform Bill from the Journal of Educational Policy |