Educational administration
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
Sub-Series
Reports of the Teachers' Training Syndicate, 1878 - 1939
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/EDUC 1/2
Scope and Contents
Comprise draft report on establishment of a teacher training scheme, with preliminary questionnaire and summaries of replies from interested parties, together with drafts and off-prints, from 1880, of Syndicate's annual reports
Dates:
1878 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Within the archives of the Departtment of Education, predecessor, successor and allied bodies, personal records are closed to scholars for 80 years from the date of creation under data protection legislation. Restrictions are clearly indicated in catalogue entries.
Series
Student records, 1498 - 1990
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Graduati
Scope and Contents
The series comprises registers and record cards for undergraduate and graduate students, recording academic progress, chiefly matriculation, University examinations and degrees.
Dates:
1498 - 1990
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Subject files, 1961 - 1989
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CMES 9
Scope and Contents
The files relate to research projects; students; Faculty relations; contacts with other similar bodies; outside funding sources.
Dates:
1961 - 1989
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Restrictions on scholarly access of 50 and 80 years are applied to governing and personal records respectively as a condition of transfer and under data protection legislation - see each catalogue record for detail.
Series
Subject files, 1921 - 1980
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/GEOL 32
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The earliest records relate to Woodward's will, estates and the administration of his fossil collection. From the 1880s, administrative records of the burgeoning Department of Geology, its teaching, examining, and students, survive alongside papers for the lengthy project to build the Sedgwick Museum. The archives also include the papers of Professor T. McKenny Hughes, Woodwardian Professor 1873-1917.
Dates:
1921 - 1980
Conditions Governing Access:
Several files closed to scholars from 80 years from date of creation under data protection legislation.
Series
Syndicate, committee and fund management papers, 1946 - 1989
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/CENG 1
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The records are largely concerned with the administration of the department and the teaching and examining of students.
Dates:
1946 - 1989
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Closure periods of 40 years are applied to Syndicate minutes, by order of the Syndicate, and 80 years to records containing personal data, under data protection legislation. Restrictions are clearly indicated in catalogue entries.
Series
University Grace Books, 1454 - 1943
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Grace Books
Scope and Contents
The 'grace' was originally a personal exemption from statutory requirements granted by the Senate to those aspiring to a degree. It came to serve wider and more general purposes. From the fifteenth century degrees became increasingly 'gratuosi' rather than 'rigorosi' and the Grace Books therefore provide what is virtually a register of degrees. From the end of the same century, the Grace formula came to be used for other persons and matters. By the mid-sixteenth century, the Grace was an...
Dates:
1454 - 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
University Papers, 1629 - 1975
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/UP
Scope and Contents
These are collections of official notices and reports, flysheets, presscuttings and other printed matter, much of it pasted into large albums. There is some overlap in contents between the album subseries.
Dates:
1629 - 1975
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
University Registry miscellanea, 1544 - 1988
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/Misc.Collect.
Scope and Contents
This series - University Registry miscellanea - chiefly consists of compilations of practical use within the administration.
Dates:
1544 - 1988
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
University Registry subject files, 1896 - 2019
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/R
Scope and Contents
The Registry subject file sequence was launched in ca 1947 and closed in 2019.
Dates:
1896 - 2019
Conditions Governing Access:
All Registry subject files are closed to scholars for 30 years from the date of creation as a condition of transfer to the University Archives. Additionally, files containing personal information are closed to scholars for 80 years from the date of creation, under data protection legislation. Closures are indicated in the catalogue entry for each affected file.
Fonds
Wass Syndicate papers, 1987 - 1992
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/WASS
Scope and Contents
The Wass Syndicate papers comprise agendas, minutes, papers and reports.
Dates:
1987 - 1992
Conditions Governing Access:
This material is freely available for consultation by members of the Regent House and by other readers on application to the Registrary, Secretariat, Old Schools, Cambridge.
Series
W.G. Bell's papers relating to the Day Training College and the Teachers' Training Syndicate, 1903 - 1920
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/EDUC 29/1-2
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The archives document the full range of operations of i) the Day Training College, and its subsequent incarnations as Training College for School Masters, Department, Faculty and School of Education and ii) the Cambridge Institute of Education. They include records of the teaching and examining process in Cambridge and at establishments across the country; internal and external oversight and funding; student and staff records; buildings records, photographs and extensive bodies of...
Dates:
1903 - 1920
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Within the archives of the Departtment of Education, predecessor, successor and allied bodies, personal records are closed to scholars for 80 years from the date of creation under data protection legislation. Restrictions are clearly indicated in catalogue entries.