| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/B/5/38 |
| Title | 'NUWT Educational Conference 1939' |
| Date | 1932 - 1939 |
| Description | Correspondence between Ethel Froud (NUWT General Secretary), A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWt), NUWT members including Miss H. R. Walmesley, and Sir Fred Clarke regarding an Educational Conference organised by the NUWT on 6 May 1939 at University College, London. The conference had two strands - the Spens Report and Rural Education. In the morning session Sir Fred Clarke gave a speech on 'Secondary Education and the Future' (the Spens Report).
The correspondence covers:
List of requests for tickets
Collation of replies from training colleges regarding advertising and encouraging students to attend
Letter sent to the press with details of the conference and inviting them to send a representative
Letter of thanks from Institute of Education to NUWT for a cheque for five guineas which they contributed to a fund for necessitous students (this was suggested by Fred Clarke - Director of the Institute - in lieu of him taking a fee for his lecture)
List of NUWT resolutions on rural education
Standard letters sent out by Central Council to NUWT members giving details of the conference
Agenda for the conference
'Memorandum on rural Education', NUWT, 1932
'A survey of the problem of education in rural areas', Edith E. Crosby, NUWT, 1932
Handbill for the conference |
| Extent | 1 folder |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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