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Introduction to the Ministry/Department Of INTRODUCTION MINISTRY/DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ARCHIVE November 2007 Table of Contents A History of the Department of Education, Northern Ireland, 1922– .................................... 7 Summary ............................................................................................................................. 7 Ministers of Education ...................................................................................................... 7 Period of Direct Rule, 1972-1973 ..................................................................................... 7 Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973-1974............................................................................ 7 Period of Direct Rule 1974-1999 ...................................................................................... 7 Northern Ireland Executive Established 2 December 1999 .............................................. 7 The ‘Belfast’ Education Bill...................................................................................................8 Administration of Education in the New State ...................................................................... 8 Before Partition .................................................................................................................... 9 The First Minister of Education .......................................................................................... 10 The Lynn Committee.......................................................................................................... 10 Structural Recommendations............................................................................................. 11 Problems Facing the New Minister .................................................................................... 11 Gaining Control.................................................................................................................. 12 The 1923 Education Act..................................................................................................... 12 Religious Instruction and the 1923 Act............................................................................... 13 Opposition to the Act.......................................................................................................... 13 The United Education Committee of the Protestant Churches........................................... 14 ‘Simple Bible Instruction’.................................................................................................... 14 Catholic Opposition............................................................................................................ 14 The Second World War...................................................................................................... 15 Further Reforms and Further Controversy ......................................................................... 15 Radical Reforms ................................................................................................................ 16 The Youth Welfare Acts (Northern Ireland) 1944–1947 ..................................................... 17 Further Development ......................................................................................................... 17 Review of Progress and Setting of New Targets................................................................ 18 Teacher Training Colleges................................................................................................. 18 The Queen’s University of Belfast...................................................................................... 20 The Lockwood Report........................................................................................................ 20 Magee University College, Londonderry ............................................................................ 21 Model Schools ...................................................................................................................21 Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 1 Crown Copyright 2007 Nursery Education ............................................................................................................. 21 Special Schools .................................................................................................................22 Maintained Schools............................................................................................................ 22 Segregated Education ....................................................................................................... 22 The 1970s.......................................................................................................................... 23 School Management in the 1980s...................................................................................... 24 Access Rule....................................................................................................................... 24 Introduction to the Education Archive ................................................................................ 25 ED/1: Grant-Aid Applications, 1832-1889 ......................................................................... 25 ED/2: National Education Office Files ............................................................................... 26 ED/3: School Building Files............................................................................................... 28 Additional School Building Material ................................................................................ 28 ED/4: Technical School Files, 1890–1933 ........................................................................ 29 ED/5: National Education Office, Dublin: School Inspectors’ Papers ............................... 30 ED/5/1 Inspectors’ District Books ................................................................................... 30 Additional School Inspectorate Material ......................................................................... 31 ED/5/2: Monitor Training Registers, 1849–1902 ............................................................... 31 Monitors in Model Schools ............................................................................................. 31 ED/5/5/1–7: Teachers’ Returns, 1904–1951..................................................................... 33 ED/5/6: Inspectors’ Notebooks.......................................................................................... 33 ED/5/7/1–30: Pupil Teachers’/Monitors Examination Papers, 1884–1886........................ 34 ED/5/8: General Inspection Registers............................................................................... 35 ED/6: National and Primary Schools Correspondence Registers, 1835–1960s................ 36 ED/7: National and Public Elementary Schools: Salary Books, 1899–1905 .................... 37 ED/8/1: National Education Commissioners, Dublin: Model School Files, 1868–1922 .... 38 ED/8/2: Model School Files of the National Education Commissioners, Dublin, 1922–1930......................................................................................................................... 39 ED/9: Primary School Files, 1925–1976 ........................................................................... 40 Improvements to Schools............................................................................................... 40 Transfer of Schools ........................................................................................................ 40 ED/10/1: Parliamentary Papers on Education, 1825–1951............................................... 42 ED/10/2: National Education Committee: Rules and Regulations.................................... 43 ED/10/3/1-10: Commissioners of National Education Abstract of Business, 1890–1891......................................................................................................................... 44 ED/10/5/1–20: Commissioners of National Education Programmes of Business, 1899–1918......................................................................................................................... 45 Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 2 Crown Copyright 2007 ED/10/6/1–42: Intermediate Education Board: Reports ................................................... 45 Difficulties Following Partition......................................................................................... 46 ED/10/7/1: Intermediate Education Board Minutes ........................................................... 46 ED/10/8/1/39: Intermediate Education Board: Rules and Programmes ............................ 47 ED/10/9/1–32: Intermediate Education Board: Examination Papers, 1890–1925............ 48 ED/10/10/1–32: Intermediate Education Board: Exhibition and Prize Lists, 1890–1921......................................................................................................................... 48 The Collection ................................................................................................................ 49 ED/10/11/1–26: Intermediate Education Board: Inspection and Examination Reports .... 49 ED/10/12/1: Vice Regal; Committee on Intermediate Education: Reports, 1917–1925 ... 50 ED/10/13/1–3: Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Intermediate Education Board (Ireland) Acts, 1878–1944.................................................................................................. 51 ED/10/14/1: Intermediate Education Board for Ireland: Intermediate Inspectors’
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