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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

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

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

The RSA has had an interest in Home-School links and the use of written agreements since 1988 when it worked with the National Association of Head Teachers on a project 'Home-School Contract of Partnership'. It has published regularly on the topic since then, some of these publication being part of the Education for Capability (PR/ED/107) and Parents in a Learning Society(PR/ED/104) projects

The RSA's New Curriculum project is a mainstream contribution to the strategic development of compulsory school education in Britain. At its heart is the development of a curriculum that places as much emphasis on the learning of critical thinking skills or 'competences' as it does on the traditional transmission of facts from teacher to pupil.\n\nOpening Minds: Education for the 21st century was published in June 1999, was the final report of the 'Redefining the Curriculum' consultative stage. Subsequently, the RSA has been working with a number of schools to make a reality of the ideas in the report. It recommended a competence-based curriculum framed around five sets of competences: for learning, managing information, managing people, managing situations, and citizenship. Project schools have developed a number of innovative curriculum initiatives, which they are now putting into practice.\n\nRecords comprise the main published reports of the project

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)

PROJECT2001 was a three-year initiative, started in March 1998, which enabled voluntary organisations to operate more effectively - through access to training and qualifications for individuals, by supporting organisational development, and by promoting lifelong learning within the sector\n\nRecords include working files, publicity material and photographs.

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

An RSA education project

Joint initiative between Design Council and RSA

The Campaign for Learning was an initiative, co-ordinated by the RSA in collaboration with the National Institute for Adult Continuing Education, the TEC National Council, the Open University and a range of other sponsors. Its aim was to encourage individuals to think more positively about learning and to take greater responsibility for their own personal development. The Campaign was chaired by Sir Christopher Ball\nRecords comprise printed reports and publicity material

Study group to consider the special problems facing Britain in the development of technological higher education

The Art Education Committee which was appointed in November 1941 to consider the place and purpose of art and design in the post-war system of education. The RSA's main concern was that while skilful manufacture had developed in every direction thre was a lack of display of artistic sense in industrial life and manufactures. The Society suggested that to hold a rightful place in the world's industry a high standard of art and design as well as craftmanship had to be achieved. This would not be possible unless the education system balanced its stress on developing intellectual powers with that of awakening of the senses.\n\nThe Committee held a series of interviews with the headmasters of art schools, industrialists and manufacturers the conculsions of which were compiled in a report of 28 May 1943 and forwarded to the President of the Board of Education. Oswald P. Milne was the Chairman of this Committee.

A pilot project in a family of schools in Leicester, to introduce Shakespeare to children between the ages of 4 and 18

The campaign for the preservation of ancient cottages began at a special meeting in May 1926 when Sir Frank Baines read a paper entitled 'The Preservation of Ancient Cottages', during which he announced that the Society had undertaken 'to initiate and endeavour to organise a movement, directed towards the final preservation of the cottage architecture of this country' and that the Society would 'call to a conference all those anxious to help and devise a scheme to accomplish our aims'. This conference was held on January 26, 1927 with the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin in the chair. He proposed a resolution approving the action of the Society and signifying the intention of the meeting 'to assist in the establishment of a substantial fund for application on the broadest national lines in furtherance of this movement'.\nBy July 1927 the amount received had reached just over £4,500 and eventually reached £15,000. In the early days of the campaign the Society was successful in saving the three Thomas a Becket cottages near Worthing and it purchased and reconditioned the group of cottages known as Arlington Row at Bilbury, Gloucestershire, among others.\nIn 1929 the Society purchased in its entirety the village of West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, which was then about to be put up for sale in 60 lots. In 1934, after extensive repairs, the Society handed over the village to the National Trust for permanent preservation. \nThe Society took no further important action in this campaign until 1953 when it decided to expend the balance of the fund, over £1000. It approached the National Trust and was responsible for the overhaul and repair of the roofs of the famous group of cottages at Chiddingstone in Kent.\n\nSeries includes minutes of a committee, printed material and images

From their beginning in 1986, the RSA's Better Environment Awards for Industry (BEAFI) maintained close links with the European Better Environment Awards for Industry (EBEAFI) run by the EU which was held every two years. The RSA put forward some of the entrants to the BEAFI as candidates for the European scheme. \n\nIn 1992 the Government announced that there would be a new environmental award, The Queen's Award for Environmental Achievement. The RSA responded with new plans for its 'Better Environment Awards for Industry (BEAFI) which had been running since 1986. There were to be two categories of Award: the first recognising Management initiatives bringing environmental benefits in Britain, the second for the export of appropriate technologies which bring environmental benefit to developing countries. The awards continued as a scheme for British companies. The RSA continued to put forward candidates for the European Better Environment Awards for Industry and in addition winners of the Queen's Awards were invited to apply for selection as candidates for the European competition.\n\nDeveloped from the PATAS (Pollution Abatement Technology Awards) these awards came about largely at the instigation of the European Commission who were setting up an EEC-wide scheme. \n\nSee 'The RSA and the Environment,' edited by Timothy Cantell, 1993\n\nRecords include minutes of committees and general meetings, correspondence and working papers and photographs

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

Organised by the RSA but involved collaboration with three other bodies: The ERAS Foundation (later re-named the Environment Foundation), the Department of the Environment and the CBI.\nEntrants could be from industry, educational or research bodies, public bodies or individuals. The project aimed 'to identify, encourage and publicise innovations to abate all types of environmental pollution'. Awards of a trophy and certificate were made annualy.\nSource: The RSA and the Environment, edited by Timothy Cantell, 1993\n\nRecords include printed materials, reports and photographs.