The National Extension College provides distance learning courses and was a pilot project for the Open University.

The Open School provides education for 16-19 year olds using distance learning methods.

The University of the Third Age encourages mutual education of older people.

Third Age Clubs were established as social and educational centres for older people.

Tower Hamlets Summer University is a summer school for 11-25 year olds.

With papers about the early history of the Open University, 1960-9.

The category - Corporate management records - embraces records of the central decision-making bodies, University officers such as the Vice-Chancellor and the Registrary, and their administrative support. It includes constitutional records.

Mainly concerns the provision of distance learning in less developed countries.

The National Commission of Education was an independent body set up to investigate education and training in the United Kingdom, 1991.
Includes a copy of a talk titled 'Change, British Society and the Family' given to the National Commission on Education, 4 April 1992.

Background documents and briefing notes for an interview on subjects including: health; education; the economy; defence.

Papers either in Newton's hand or concerning his life and work. Subjects covered include the Royal Society, education, cosmography, mechanics, mathematics, astronomy and shipbuilding.

Papers either in Newton's hand or concerning his life and work. Subjects covered include the Royal Society, education, cosmography, mechanics, mathematics, astronomy and shipbuilding.

Files on subjects from 'C' to 'W'.

Working papers on schools covering subjects such as teaching, teacher training, and teachers' salaries; education policy; intelligence testing and selection; literacy and reading; scientific and technical education; and the application of communication strategies and theories of human behaviour in schools, further education and the welfare state. Consists largely of press cuttings, articles, and survey data, with Mark Abrams's detailed notes.

Text.

Comprising draft synopses of books titled "Cycles of Life in London", 1970, and "Education - a Semi-Fantasy Book", undated, and an introductory chapter to a book titled "Isolation of the Immediate Family", undated.

Cuttings, prints, proofs and manuscripts of articles written by LSA, mainly for the Times and National Review, on subjects including: mountaineering; north-western Canada; the Imperial Conference (1907); the East African empire; the Education Bill (1906); British trade figures; the military geography of the empire; reorganizing the Conservative Party; policy on tariff reform, defence, Ireland and social issues.