Preface. Part One: The Growth and Scope of the Department 1. Introduction: From Committee of Council to Department of State 2. Demographic and Social Background 3. The Department and its Partners in the Education Service 4. National Policies for Education 5. The Financing of Education Part Two: The Department’s Main Responsibilities Under the Education Acts 6. The Department and the Schools 7. Teachers and Teacher Training 8. Further Education Part Three: The Department and the Universities 9. The University Grants Committee; The Robbins Report; Student Grants Part Four: The Growth of Higher Education 10. Higher Education: A Decade of Rapid Growth, and Some Problems Part Five: The Department’s Responsibilities in Other Fields 11. The Department and the Library Services 12. The Department’s Concern with the Arts and Museums 13. The Department and Civil Science Part Six: Organisation and Personnel; and Some Conclusions 14. Organisation and Personnel 15. Some Conclusions. Appendix: Ministers of Education and Secretaries of State for Education and Science since 1944. Index.
Biography
Sir William Pile (1919–1997), Permanent Under-Secretary of State 1970–1976, Department of Education and Science.
