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Taylor (1977)

Notes on the text
Preliminary pages Membership, Preface, Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Present arrangements for school government
Chapter 3 A new approach to school government
Chapter 4 Membership of the new governing bodies
Chapter 5 Communication and cooperation
Chapter 6 Curriculum
Chapter 7 Finance
Chapter 8 Appointments
Chapter 9 Other functions
Chapter 10 Training the new governors
Chapter 11 Procedural arrangements
Chapter 12 The government of voluntary schools
Chapter 13 Recommendations and implementation
Summary of recommendations

Notes of extension and dissent, minority report

Appendix A Evidence
Appendix B History of school managers and governors
Appendix C Visits
Appendix D Education Act 1944: selected extracts
Appendix E Administrative Memorandum No 25 (1945)
Appendix F Letter to parents
Appendix G Aims into practice

Index

The Taylor Report (1977)
A new partnership for our schools

Report of the Committee of Enquiry appointed jointly by the Secretary of State for Education and Science and the Secretary of State for Wales under the chairmanship of Mr Tom Taylor CBE

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1977
© Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.

Appendix C Visits
[page 195]

Members of the Committee discussed school management and government with representatives of a wide range of interests drawn from the areas covered by the following local education authorities:

Bedfordshire
Birmingham
Calderdale
Clwyd
Devon
Ealing
Gwent
Gwynedd
Harrow
Humberside
ILEA
Isle of Wight
Lancashire
Northumberland
Nottinghamshire
Richmond
Sheffield
Solihull
Staffordshire
Committee members also attended the following courses and conferences:
a seminar for managers and governors in the Warrington district of Cheshire,

the 1975 annual conference of the British Educational Administration Society,

the 1975 annual conference of the National Association of Governors and Managers,

a conference on the government of secondary schools at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor,

a conference for school governors and managers at Nottingham University School of Education,

an induction course for managers, governors and clerks in the London Borough of Ealing.

Appendix B | Appendix D