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Learning Pays was a project set up by the Society and run by Sir Christopher Ball

Electronic Education, its role in the learning society, was a conference held at the RSA in 1992. This series includes publications from that conference

The Society administered a series of arts scholarships, particularly music and dance from the 1970s to 1990. These were merged into an arts committee which looked at general arts policy\nRecords comprise administrative correspondence and papers

Contains the minutes and papers of the following committees; the Membership Committee, the Regional Activities Committee and the Fellowship Committee.

The functions of the group were to keep the RSA in touch with developments in manufactures and commerce; provide ideas for lectures, projects and initiatives; advise on the value of suggestions for lectures, projects and initiatives coming from the Fellowship and the extent to which the RSA name should be attached to them; evaluate the quality of the RSA manufactures and commerce programme; support the RSA in the formulation and dissemination of ideas and project results and provide advice on sponsorship for manufacturing activities.

The RSA's Education for Capability movement was initiated in 1978 with a manifesto signed by some leading figures in education, industry and public life. It aimed to counteract the academic bias of British education and to promote the value of the practical, organising and co-operative skills too often underrated in the existing system. It encouraged creativity in its widest sense, believed that learners should share the responsibility for their own learning and emphasised the need for teaching and learning processes which themselves develop and use capability. The initiative was felt to be successful in promoting change in learning methods. A databank of good 'Capability' practise in all sectors was established from which networks were identified and developed.\n\nIn 1988 the project was directed towards higher education, to continue work in further education and to consolidate work in secondary schools and extend this to teacher training. [Adapted from Education for Capability literature]\nRecords include administrative correspondence and files and printed material

This competition was a partnership between the RSA, Boosey & Hawkes and Classic FM. It arose out of Classic FM's Masterclass series for secondary schools. It was an exercise in linking the creativity of composers with the needs of young players to remedy the fact that few developments in musical style had filtered down to what was available for young orchestras and choirs to perform. The competition was launched nationwide on Classic FM and in other music media in the autumn of 1993 with entries to be in by March 1994. This was a 'one-off' venture.\n\nFiles in this series are the entries for the competition. While most files contain an entry for, composition description, cassette recording of the composition and accompanying correspondence.

The Design Section involved itself from time to time with other societies in the promotion of Design, often to encourage different Design bodies to co-operate with each other.

The National Advisory Council for Careers and Educational Guidance is a non-government organisation. It was established under the aegis of the RSA and CBI in June 1994, working towards full independence in June 1997. Member organisations represent guidance professional bodies, education, commerce and industry, and student, youth and special interest groups.The purpose of the Guidance Council is to promote and advise on the provision of good quality guidance for learning and work, accessible to all individuals throughout their lives.\n(Taken from the introduction of First Steps publication 1995)

An analysis of the educational, financial and social benefits of nursery education and other forms of early learning

The Design section's governing body, the Design Advisory Group (previously the Design Committee, the Design Board and initially the Design Bursaries Board) acts as an advisor to the RSA's Programme Committee, is a source of ideas for RSA future programme, reviews current design projects and evaluates the quality of the RSA Programme work in design.\nRecords comprise administrative correspondence and files

A forum comprising representatives from business and education to promote a national strategy for restructuring education and training, based on the RSA projects Learning Pays (1991) and Profitable Learning (1992)

An RSA education project

Award scheme to complement the Queen's Award for Environmental Achievement 1992/93. Award given for a significant initiative by British management in the pursuit of sustainability which seeks to eliminate the negative impacts of business on the environment while maintaining the long term viability of the business.\nSource: The RSA and the Environment, edited by Timothy Cantell, 1993\n\nRecords include publications, printed material and photographs

Industry Year 1986 took place because it was considered that in the late 1980's the decline in UK manufacturing seriously threatened our ability to maintain let alone improve the quality of life for our citizens. Industry Years' slogan 'Thanks to Industry', was intended as a challenge to a society which is insufficiently aware that almost everything we do depends on industrial activity and which shows little appreciation of such activity. The Industry Committee was formed towards the end of 1982 to carry forward an initiative begun at St. George's House, Windsor, in conjunction with the earlier, 'Comino Committee' of the RSA. The committee members included: \nSir Geoffrey Chandler, Director, Industry Year; Diana McMahon, Deputy Director, Industry Year; Lord Vinson, Chairman, Industry Year Executive Committee; Christopher Lucas, Secretary; John Robertson, Assistant Secretary\nIts main objective was the promotion, throughout the United Kingdom, of a recognition of the importance to the future of our county - and to its influence on the world economy - of a prosperous and profitable British Industry in all its branches based upon modern technology and , with that, to help to effect a positive change in the cultural attitude towards industry in Britain on the part of the public as a whole. The Industry Committee which was formed to take over from the Comino Fellowship Committee, the latter formed in 1979, was established with much wider terms of reference than the running of Industry Year 1986.\n\nIndustry Matters was the successor of Industry Year. It was a clearly targeted programme of action which continued to stress the importance of industry and its role in our lives, building on the momentum achieved during Industry Year 1986. The main aim was to encourage continuing action in three main areas: developing partnerships between industry and education; action by industry to communicate more effectively the part it plays in society; increasing awareness of industry's role and its service to the community. The work was carried on through a network of regional and local groups, with a central team provided for up to two years by the RSA.\n\nSeries of records which include minutes of various steering committees and correspondence relating to the development and administration of the project.

A two year national development project to generate better ways of involving parents in education and to produce and test ways to assess home-school work

This series includes information and images on works of art and other artefacts donated to the Society or purchased. An inventory of items is kept for insurance purposes\nThis series contains photographs and illustrations of objects and artefacts which have been donated to the Society or purchased by the Society as part of its collection.

The William Shipley Appeal was established to raise funds for the Society, in particular for the refurbishment of the Great Room, for the Society's programme, for regional development and for the Archive Project. This series includes photographs taken at the launch event in May 1996 which was attended by Prince Philip as president