Correspondence with the general public on education issues, including JEP's address to the Doctors Dinner, Merchant Taylors Hall [London] in defence of teaching arts subjects (20 Dec 1984, reprinted as an article, Jan 1985), the Education Bill (1986), Green Paper for Higher Education (1985) and the teaching of Latin and Greek. Correspondents include: Gerald Fowler, North East London Polytechnic; Brian Taylor, Secretary General, Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals; Alan Knight, Lecturer in History, Essex University; Lord James of Rusholme.

Also includes: paper by Gerald Fowler on the development of higher education in the 1990's; brief from the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals on the higher education debate (1985).