From board of education to department for education and employment

Journal of Educational Administration and History

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 8-22

  Aldrich, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0038554744     PISSN: 00220620     EISSN: 14787431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0022062000320102     Document Type: Article

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2. Aldrich, R., Crook, D., and Watson, D., 2000. Education and Employment: the DfEE and its place in history, London: Institute of Education. The authors are most grateful to the Nuffield Foundation for the grant to carry out the research upon which the book and this article are based. Other publications arising from this project include D. Crook and R. Aldrich, ‘Education and employment in England: historical perspectives, research and teaching’ in A Heikkinen, T. Lein and L. Mjelde (eds), Work of Hands and work of Minds in Times of Change (Jyvaskyla, University of Jyvaskyla, 1999), and D. Watson, ‘Relations between the education and employment departments, 1921‐45: an anti‐industrial culture versus industrial efficiency?’, History of Education 27 (1998), 333‐343. I am most grateful to my colleagues, David Crook and David Watson for their comments on an earlier draft of this article
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34. Dame Mary Smieton was Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Education, 1959‐63.
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