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Boys train to be miners at Mossbeath Training School, Cowdenbeath, Fife, in 1948.

Boys train to be miners at Mossbeath Training School, Fife, in 1948.
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After 1945, governments saw technical education as the key to economic success. The provision of technical and higher education greatly expanded in the post-war period.

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The Fisher Act

Cabinet Memorandum. Future Educational Policy. Memorandum by the President of the Board of Education. 8 February 1934 (PDF, 1.582MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Educational Policy Committee Second Report. 15 July 1935 (PDF, 4.794MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 1. Educational Reform. 13 July 1943 (PDF, 1.102MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Educational Reconstruction. Note by the President of the Board of Education. Includes the Draft White Paper. 9 July 1943 (PDF, 10.254MB)

Colleges of Advanced Technology (CATs)

Cabinet Memorandum. Technical Education. Memorandum by the Minister of Education. 19 December 1955 (PDF, 2.185MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Technical Education. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Scotland. 28 December 1955 (PDF, 0.509MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Technological Education. Memorandum by the Prime Minister. 2 January 1956 (PDF, 0.390MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Technical Education. Note by the Lord Privy Seal, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Minister of Education. 16 February 1956 (PDF, 8.723MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 7. Technical Education. 22 February 1956 (PDF, 2.506MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Transfer of Colleges of Advanced Technology to Direct Grant. Memorandum by the Minister of Education. 27 November 1961 (PDF, 0.740MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 7. Education. 5 December 1961 (PDF, 2.032MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 2. Education: Colleges of Advanced Technology. 13 December 1961 (PDF, 0.987MB)

Polytechnics under Labour

Cabinet Memorandum. The Development of Higher Education. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for Education and Science. 29 January 1965 (PDF, 0.981MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Higher Education within the Further Education System. 17 May 1966 (PDF, 1.518MB)

Industrial training legislation

Cabinet Memorandum. Industrial Training. Memorandum by the Minister of Labour. 23 November 1962 (PDF, 1.155MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 5. Industrial Training. 27 November 1962 (PDF, 1.734MB)

Search using Fisher Act Colleges of Advanced Technology Polytechnics Manpower Services Commission

Further reading

Aldcroft, D.H., Education, Training and Economic Performance (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992)
Cantor, L.M. and Roberts, I.F., Further Education in England and Wales, 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 1972)
King, D., Actively Seeking Work? The Politics of Unemployment and Welfare Policy in the United States and Great Britain (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1995)
Owen, G., From Empire to Europe: The Decline and Revival of British Industry Since the Second World War, chap. 15 (London: HarperCollins, 1999)
Pemberton, H., Policy Learning and British Governance in the 1960s (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
Perry, P.J.C., The Evolution of British Manpower Policy (London: P.J.C. Perry, 1976)
Prais, S.J., Productivity, Education and Training: An International Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Sanderson, M., The Missing Stratum: Technical School Education in England 1900-1990 (Athlone: Continuum, 1994)

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