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| Description | Comprises cuttings from various newspapers regarding various subjects relating to education separated into sections, possibly by Don Jones.
Collection of press cuttings of responses to a letter to the Times of 3 June 1967 from 25 of the 44 universities' Vice-Chancellors criticising the schemes of secondary school re-organisation along comprehensive lines:
(i) 'Reorganisation and academic standards' The Times 3 June 1967 (the original letter)
(ii) 'MPs' hackles up over Vice Chancellors', The Times 5 June 1967
(iii) 'Vice Chancellors' alarmed', Times Educational Supplement (TES), 9 June 1967
(iv) 'Universities and Schools' 10 June 1967. A letter signed by an alternative group of academics including Brian Simon in opposition to the opinions expressed in the original letter
(v) 'Universities linked with schools', The Times, 21 June 1967 from Noel Innan, the Provost of University College London
(vi) 'Secondary schools', The Times 13 June 1967 from the High Master of Manchester Grammar School
(vii) Editorial from the TES, 30 June 1967
(viii) 'Universities and Schools' The Times 13 July 1967 from the Principal University College Cardiff
(ix) 'Universities and Schools' The Times 15 July 1967 from Professor H Bondi FRS
'Directors of Education' Anne Corbett, New Society 11 April 1968
'Primitive British Schools' TES 11 October 1968. A translation of a Russian article quoting Brian Simon's comments on Russian schools on British education
'Decorations galore' article on the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) in TES, November 1969 describing its membership
A series of cuttings on Russian education mostly from the TES:
(i) 'Early selection in the USSR' 2 January 1970
(ii) 'Gifted Russian children' 13 February 1970
(iii) 'Selection in the USSR' by Geoffrey Bantock, Brian Simon's colleague at Leicester, undated
(iv) 'Selection in Soviet Union' 20 March 1970 by Geoffrey Bantock
(v) 'Early Selection in the USSR' 6 March 1970 by Brian Simon
(vi) Card from Shena Simon to Brian Simon congratulating him on his letter to the TES 18 March 1970
(vii) 'Streaming and selection have their advocates', article by Jennifer Louis on Russian education, 6 March 1970
(viii) Letter from Joan Simon, dated 14 February 1970 to Stuart MacLure, Editor of the TES, on Soviet Education
Articles regarding the work of the Comprehensive Schools Committee:
(i) 'Advisory panel to help teachers' The Times, 6 November 1967
(ii) 'Comprehensive research advice' TES, 10 November 1967
(iii) Letter from Douglas Holly explaining that Brian Simon was the head of the Advisory panel undated
(iv) 'Comprehensiveness' comment in New Society, 9 January 1967
(v) 'Research Panel to aid teachers', The Guardian, 6 November 1967
(vi) 'All in body urges grass-roots probe by teachers', Morning Star, 6 November 1967
Review in TES dated 7 May 1971 by Ronald Cave of Douglas Holly's 'Society, Schools and Humanity, the changing world of secondary education'
TES profile of Brian Simon 'Simon: Champion of comprehensives' 9 July 1971
Articles regarding research into the links between gender and intelligence
(i) 'The Biology of sex differences' by Dr Jeffrey Gray in The Times
(ii) 'The biology of sex differences' by Dr Jeffrey Gray, The Times 11 December 1971
(iii) 'Sex and intelligence' The Times 17 December 1971, a response by Mrs Sylvia Anthony criticising the views of Dr Gray
(iv) 'Sex and Intelligence' The Times 18 December 1971, a critical response by Professor Henry Tajfel of Bristol University
(v) 'Comparing intelligence of men and women', The Times 16 December 1971, by J W Jeffery of Birkbeck College
(vi) 'Sex and Intelligence' The Times 7 January 1972, a response to the above criticisms by Jeffrey Gray
Newspaper articles regarding teacher-tutor training. Leicester School of Education was a pioneer in the use of school-based teacher-tutors for the purpose of teacher training
(i) 'Tutor schemes grown in popularity' Times Higher Educational Supplement, 15 September 1972. Reference is made to Simon's report to the Education Section of the British Association 1972
(ii) 'Tutor scheme popular' TES, 15 September 1972. Includes mention of Brian Simon
(iii) 'Teacher-Tutors', Education, 15 September 1972 reporting on the Education Section of the British Association Meeting in Leicester in 1972
'The Simon Population Trust: the first fifteen years 1960-1974', a report about the trust set up by Ernest D Simon (Brian Simon's father), with a letter from Brian Simon to D Casey, the Chairman of the Trust thanking him for his report
'Teachers press for new hope school', TES, 20 July 1973, supporting the establishment of experimental schools in Hackney and Bermondsey
Small number of articles regarding a group of Czech Liberals who were imprisoned during the summer of 1972:
(i) 'Court rejects appeals of 30 Czech Liberals' The Times, 26 November 1972
(ii) 'Czech protest', Morning Star, 30 November 1972. Letter from Brian Simon deploring rejection of appeals
(iii) 'Thirty Czechs to stay in jail', Morning Star, 30 November 1972
(iv) 'Opposite case' Morning Star 13 December 1972. Letter from H W Hall of Pembroke College, Cambridge opposing Brian Simon's point of view
(v) Letter from Jack Cohen, editorial board member of Marxism Today, to Brian Simon supporting Simon's standpoint
'We regret the death of Penguin Education', TES, 1 March 1974, protest letter signed by a number of people including Brian Simon
Articles regarding Simon's and Caroline Benn's book Half Way There:
(i) 'Standards raised', from the TES, 14 January 1972, by Brian Simon responding to a letter by John Todd of Balliol College Oxford, criticising an aspect of the research published in 'Half Way There'
(ii) 'Circumscribed research' letter from John Todd published in the TES, undated
(iii) Letters from R Pedley of St Dunstan's College, Catford, and John Todd, published in the TES 28 January 1972
Small number of articles regarding research and comprehensive education:
(i) 'Research and the Comprehensives' by John Eggleston, Professor of Education at Warwick University, published in the TES, 24 January 1975
(ii) 'Research and the Comprehensives', response from Brian Simon to John Eggleston's letter, published in the TES, 7 February 1975
(iii) 'Research and the Comprehensives', reply by John Eggleston to Simon's letter, published in the TES, 28 February 1975
(iv) Letter from Brian Simon to the Editor of the TES , dated 2 March 1975
Small number of items regarding a visit made by Simon to the USA in 1975:
(i) Notice of a lecture to be given by Brian Simon in Buffalo during his visit to the USA in 1975
(ii) Visitors' hand-out from the Laboratory School in Chicago April 1975
Small number of articles regarding an article by Simon on the Black Papers:
(i) 'Latin and -' letter to the Morning Star dated 16 June 1975
(ii) 'Black papers and the media - no conspiracy' letter to the Morning Star 23 May 1975 referring to Brian Simon's article featured on 12 May 1975
(iii) Letter on the Black Paper published in the Morning Star 9 March 1975
(iv) Letter to the Editor of the Craven Herald and Pioneer from R R Wilkinson dated 2 May 1975
(v) 'Educational Back Woodsman', review by Brian Simon of the recently published Black Paper from the Morning Star 12 May 1975
'730 Keep the red flag flying', a report in the TES dated 25 July 1975 on the seventh annual Communist University of London at which Brian Simon lectured
Small number of articles regarding education and local government:
(i) 'Education break with local government envisaged', published in The Times 19 November 1975. A report on the Lady Simon of Wythenshawe memorial lecture delivered by Dudley Fiske, Chief Education Officer of Manchester
(ii) 'Too many interfere in education' report in The Teacher on Dudley Fiske's lecture, dated 21 November 1975
(iii) 'LEAs - can they afford to stay local?' report on Dudley Fiske's lecture published in Education 21 November 1975
(iv) 'Cuckoo in the Nest', report on Dudley Fiske's lecture published in the TES 21 November 1975
'Symposium ends weeks of Marxist discussion', report on Marxist discussions at the Polytechnic of Central London, published in the Morning Star 15 September 1975
Articles regarding student protest in reaction to financial cuts on education services:
(i) 'Student pickets in protest at education cuts', from the Leicester Mercury 1 June 1976
(ii) 'College Heads back students in protest', from the Leicester Mercury regarding Brian Simon's support for students 2 June 1976
Article in Danish journal 'Land of Folk', with photograph of Brian Simon, 20 April 1976 (no translation)
Small number of articles regarding teacher training education:
(i) Editorial feature in Education 21 November 1975, criticising teacher education provided by universities
(ii) Two responses to the article by Brian Simon and William Taylor, Director of the University of London Institute of Education, published in Education, 5 December 1975
'Latest Black Paper is nonsense', quoting Brian Simon and published in the Morning Star 22 March 1977 |