Working Party on Education Degrees

Typed correspondence, minutes, printed University prospectuses, typed reports and typed documents concerning the British Psychological Society Standard Committee on Membership Working Party on Education Degrees. The first meeting took place on 13 Jun 1975. Includes the following:

Typed minutes of the first Working Party on Education Meeting, 13 Jun 1975

3-page undated report entitled "Report on Further Training for M.Ed.Graduates entering Child Guidance Service" by Principal Educational Psychologists of Scotland, c.1975

3-page report by Professor John Nisbet, University of Aberdeen entitled "Report to the Standing Committee on Training in Psychology of the British Psychological Society", 5 May 1975

Typed correspondence from Professor R. J. Audley, Professor H. J. Butcher, Proessor P. McEwen, Professor N. J. Entwhistle, Professor John Nisbet, Mr D. E. Broadbent, and Mr H. J. Wright to Mr R. M. Farr, General Secretary to the British Psychological Society, accepting the invitation to serve on the Working Party on Education Degrees, Apr 1972

7-page typed British Psychological Society list of Departments of Psychology and Education at Universities and Polytechnics in the U.K. and Eire, Apr 1975

Copy of a report entitled "Graduate Membership- Second degree courses in Psychology and Education/Sociology" by Sub-Committee on Psychology/Sociology and Psychology/Education degrees (sub-committee members Professors Warburton, Estby and Westby), dated 10 Jun 1967

Paper of the Business for the Standing Committee on Membership outlining the members and the background to the Working Party on Degrees in Education, 19 May 1972

4-typed circular letters (2-drafts) from British Psychological Society Standing Committee on Membership to Heads of University Departments of Education asking for prospectuses, Oct 1975

Correspondence and course details from several UK and Northern Ireland universities in response to the Standing Committee on Membership's circular letter requesting prospectuses for M.Ed courses, 1975-1976

21 university prospectuses of M.Ed and B.Ed courses, 1974-1977

1967-1977

1 file (in 2 parts)

Deposited in the library at Wellcome Collection by the British Psychological Society in February 2009.

Compiled by the Cataloguing Project Archivist at the British Psychological Society History of Psychology Centre, with minor editing by Wellcome staff.