Records of the London County Council Education Officer's Department relating to organisational, financial and general matters, 1871-1965.
General files on a variety of topics including statutes and legal decisions affecting education; the Royal Commission on London Government; Education Bill, 1930; Education Act, 1936; the Pearson and Davidson Committees on Financial Adjustments between Local Education Authorities; Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1953; Government grants to local education authorities; financial economies; Board of Education and Ministry of Health circulars and memoranda; educational activities of the City Livery Companies; proposed reforms in educational system; Inspection policy; standards for planning school buildings; Departmental Committee on Playgrounds; provision of new schools and re-organisation of existing schools; General Strike, 1926; criticisms of London educational system; teaching of domestic subjects; policy on corporal punishment; wearing of jewellery by school children; left-handed children; travelling facilities for school children; Cadet Corps in schools; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) educational programmes; children and "A" category films; attendance of school children at entertainments; unsatisfactory school premises and schools requiring major repairs; attendance of school children at ceremonial functions; exhibitions and demonstrations; White Paper on Educational Reconstruction and Education Bill, 1943; holiday journeys and exchanges; working papers for report on "Ten Years of LCC Education, 1904-14"; working papers for report on "Twenty Five Years of LCC Education, 1904-29"; working papers for report on "Fifty Years of LCC Education, 1904-54"; educational reconstruction after the Second World War; Committee on School Libraries; Coronation celebrations, 1911, 1937 and 1953; press releases and brochures relating to school opening ceremonies; Royal Commission on Museums; the Horniman Museum; the Geffrye Museum; the Museum of Costume (Langley-Moore Collection); examination procedure for appointments to LCC administrative and clerical staff; Departmental Committee on Children and the Cinema (Wheare Committee); effect of Hop-picking missions on school attendance.
Papers of Central Consultative Committees of Headmasters and Headmistresses and other Advisory Bodies, including the Special Joint Sub-Committee on Supply Teachers; Special Joint Sub-Committee on difficulties of senior schools; Special Joint Sub-Committee on junior school staffing; Joint Conference on promotion from infant to junior schools; Joint Sub-Committee on School reports; Special Sub-Committee on mobility of teaching staff and Central Standing Joint Conference on Evening Institutes. Also minutes, agendas and papers of the Central Consultative Committees of Headmasters and Headmistresses and their sub-committees and minutes, agendas and papers of the Consultative Committee on Educational Matters, Standing Joint Advisory Committee and Conferences of Chairmen of Education Committees and Chief Education Officers of London and the Home Counties.
Minutes of the Standing Conference of LCC Divisional Education Officers; minutes of meetings of School Inspectors; minutes of Board of Examiners; and minutes of the Conference on Training Girls for Domestic Service.
Reports by the Education Officer, LCC Education Department, to Education Sub-Committees; reports by the Clerk of the Council to the Education Committee and Sub-Committees; reports by the Educational Adviser to Education Committee and Sub-Committees. Reports, including "Survey and Inspection of Non-Provided Schools", 1905; "Effect of the Survey of Non-Provided Schools on the School Accommodation of London" - First report by Executive Officer, 1906; "Some problems of Education in London", 1915; report on the effect of the proposed raising of the school-leaving age, 1930; report on the Three-Year Educational Building and Financial Programme; Conference of Local Education Authorities on School Building, County Hall, January 1961; miscellaneous printed reports on education finance, grants, building programmes and legislation, 1896-1938; programmes and guides to Festivals, exhibitions and other events, 1910-1946. Register of accommodation for LCC Schools and non-provided schools, arranged by electoral divisions.
Directories and handbooks issued by the Education Service. Samples of typical school administrative records, including Stock and Stores Books; Books and Apparatus Stock Books; Needlework Account Books; Needlework Cash Books; Science Apparatus Stock and Stores Books; Registers of Fees and School Disbursements Account Books. Sample question papers set at LCC examinations; question papers and results sheets for various LCC Examinations including examinations for promotion of clerical assistants to the general clerical class, for appointments to the General Typewriting Service and for promotion within the London Fire Brigade; Board of Education Circulars.
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