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Regional Services Division (1979-1987)
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The Regional Services Division superseded the Regional Services Branch in 1979. The Division was headed by an Executive Director and reported through the Assistant Deputy Minister, Education Programs Division. The Regional Service Branch was originally composed of six Regional Offices (Northwestern, Midnorthern, Northeastern, Western, Central, and Eastern) as well as the Correspondence Education Branch.
Initially the Superintendent of Private Vocational Schools, the Program Supervisor of Regional Schools for Nursing Assistants, the Superintendents of Schools for the Blind and the Deaf, principals of Developmental Centre Schools, and principals of Juvenile Centre (Training) Schools reported to the Executive Director. Principals of Developmental Centre Schools and principals of Juvenile Centre (Training) Schools began reporting to the Provincial Schools Branch when it was established in 1981. The defunct Correspondence Education Branch was also absorbed by Provincial Schools Branch in 1981. The Provincial Schools Branch was transferred to the Education Programs Division in 1981, but returned to the Regional Services Division in 1984.
Between 1984 and 1987 the Regional Services Division consisted of the Regional Offices and the Provincial Schools Branch. Additionally, the Regional Services Secretariat existed from 1981 to 1983 to support the Executive Director of the Division. In January, 1987, the Regional Services Division was dissolved. The Regional Services Offices became part of the new Learning Services Division. The Provincial Schools Branch was transferred to the new Learning Programs Division where it was amalgamated with the Special Education Branch to form the Special Education and Provincial Schools Branch.
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The Regional Services Division was responsible for the Ministry of Education's Regional Offices. The Regional Offices informed school boards about the Ministry's policies, directives, and programs, and assisted in implementing them. The Division was responsible for provincial schools from 1979 to 1981 and from 1984 to 1987, correspondence education from 1979 to 1981, private vocational schools from 1979 to 1982, and oversaw the Schools for Nursing Assistants from 1979 to 1981 and from 1984 to 1987. The Division also controlled the inspection of private schools and the Provincial School Attendance Counsellor between 1979 and 1983.
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RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Sources
Inventory 2: Records of the Ministry of Education: Volume 3B: Administrative Histories R to Y, 1997.
Maintenance notes
Agency not in Canadiana Name Authorities, 2011-07-29.
Archivist(s):
B. Wiancko