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Harry Barnes' minutes, papers and correspondence relating to the Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA). Papers are largely minutes, agendas and papers from meetings of the CNAA Council. Files include some other records such as Working Party papers and those about CNAA visits. CNAA meeting papers include: agendas; minutes of the previous Council meeting; information about members of the Council; Committee membership; correspondence about meetings; minutes and reports from Council sub-committees, e.g. the General Committee, the Honorary degrees Committee, and the Committees for Art and Design, Arts and Social Studies, Science and Technology, and Education; information about the constitution of the Council's Committees; reports of Council Working Parties e.g. Working Party to discuss Professional Training; reports of CNAA visits to various venues and Colleges; timetables for renewal of approval for courses; information and discussion papers about topics such as External Examining, criteria for approval of courses, TV broadcasting, regulations and conditions for courses, student enrolments, regional differences between Scotland and England, and diversification in Colleges of Education. Folders as follows: DIR/13/3/2/1: Folder labelled 'CNAA Working Party of Principals', 1973 (1 folder) Minutes and papers of a joint Working Party of Art School Principals from Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow on Art Courses and Qualifications. The Working Party discussed course and degree-related topics and submissions to the CNAA. Includes information on School of Art courses, for example Painting, Embroidery, and Product Design; correspondence about course structure; course proposals; and correspondence among the four main Scottish Art Schools. DIR/13/3/2/2: Folder labelled 'CNAA, Individual Section & Department Proposals', 1974 (1 folder) Includes: Correspondence with the Central (Art) Institutions (Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow) about their Working Party on Art Courses and Qualifications; documents about examination arrangements in the colleges, joint proposals for degree awards, and joint course proposals; reports of the Working Party; documents and correspondence about the amalgamation of CNAA and NCDAD. DIR/13/3/2/3: Agenda, minutes and papers for meeting of the CNAA Council, 05 Nov 1974 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/4: Agenda, minutes and papers for meeting of the CNAA Committee for Art and Design, 04 Jul 1975 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/5: Agenda, minutes and papers for meeting of the CNAA Council, 18 Feb 1975 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/6: Agenda, minutes and papers for meeting of the CNAA Committee for Art and Design, 02 May 1975 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/7: Agenda, minutes and papers for meeting of the CNAA Council, 20 May 1975 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/8: Agenda, minutes and papers for meeting of the CNAA Council, 22 Jul 1975 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/9: Agenda, minutes and papers for meeting of the CNAA Council, 04 Nov 1975 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/10: Agenda, minutes and papers for meeting of the CNAA Council, 17 Feb 1976 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/11: Agenda, minutes and papers for meeting of the CNAA Council, 25 May 1976 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/12: Agenda, minutes and papers for meeting of the CNAA Council, 20 Jul 1976 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/13: Agenda, minutes and papers for meetings of the CNAA Council: 21 Oct 1976, 02 Nov 1976, and 15 Feb 1977 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/14: Folder labelled 'Partnership in Validation', 1976-1977 (1 folder) Includes: document 'Council of Academic Awards, Partnership in Validation: a summary of the comments received on the Council's discussion paper dated July 1975 and issued in September 1975'; and correspondence and papers about a CNAA visit to the Glasgow School of Art 29-30 Jan 1976. DIR/13/3/2/15: Agenda, minutes and papers for meeting of the CNAA Council, 24 May 1977 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/16: Agenda, minutes and papers for meetings of the CNAA Council, 19 Jul 1977 and 29 Nov 1977 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/17: Agenda, minutes and papers for meetings of the CNAA Council, 02 May 1978, and 25 Jul 1978 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/18: Agenda, minutes and papers for meeting of the CNAA Council, 05 Dec 1978 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/19: Papers of a CNAA visit to Oxford Polytechnic, 12 May 1978 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/20: Papers of a CNAA visit to South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education, 17 Nov 1978 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/21: Agenda, minutes and papers for meeting of the CNAA Committee for Art and Design, 15 Jan 1979 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/22: Agenda, minutes and papers for meeting of the CNAA Council, 27 Feb 1979 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/23: Assortment of papers for CNAA meetings of Council and its Committees, 1979 (1 folder) DIR/13/3/2/24: Papers regarding the Revalidation of Glasgow School of Art Courses, 1979 (1 folder) Includes: correspondence with the CNAA about Revalidation; draft copies of Glasgow School of Art course documentation; document 'Operation of the Courses Since Approval by CNAA: Some General Observations by the Director'; circulars to an 'Ad Hoc Committee on CNAA Degrees in Art & Design'; suggested plans for 'Revalidation Papers'; Staff Committee papers, Department of Planning; 'Proposal to Modify the Existing Course Structure for Both the Degree Courses in Art and Design'; Revalidation proposals, 'II Fine Art'; 'Glasgow School of Art: 1979 Review of Art and Design Courses, Part III: Proposals for Revalidation of BA and BA (Hons) in Design'. DIR/13/3/2/25: Assortment of papers and correspondence relating to arrangements for CNAA meetings and events, 1974-1978 (1 folder) Includes: Correspondence between Barnes and the CNAA regarding arrangements for attending meetings; correspondence about CNAA matters such as Degree/Honours Degree differentiation; invitations to Council dinners; correspondence about Barnes continuing as a member of the Council; information about the Renewal of Approval of a Course of Study; photocopy of news clipping related to Art Teachers and Unions; arrangements for CNAA visits; correspondence about awards ceremonies; circular about the 'Procedures involved in the conferment of the Council's Awards'; CNAA newsletter CNAA Commentary, No 3, Nov 1974.