Scope and Contents Includes: confidential correspondence with Alan Milburn, Chief Secretary of the Treasury, regarding teachers' pay reform; correspondence and press cuttings concerning an attempted student sit-in at Blunkett's Sheffield office in protest at the introduction of tuition fees; letter to Gordon Brown concerning procedures and practices in terms of working together on initiatives and policies; correspondence concerning The Robert Ogden Scholarships to encourage students from deprived backgrounds...

Scope and Contents Mainly contains correspondence from individuals and organisations regarding education and employment policy which has been forwarded from Blunkett's Sheffield office to civil servants and ministers within the DfEE. Includes correspondence concerning: the teaching of human biology with the author Margaret Drabble (5 January); performance related pay for teachers (18 January); support for Robert Ogden to be given a knighthood for work in education (21 January); a press cutting from the...