A Central Education Committee within Conservative Central Office existed at least from 1925, when it took over the role of political education from the National Union's Labour Committee. In 1928, responsibility was transferred to the short-lived Conservative and Unionist Educational Institute, whereupon responsibility passed back to the Education Committee. Its purpose was solely to do with political education - i.e., the training of Conservative Party agents and activists, which was organised through day conferences and weekend courses held by Area Education Committees (of which there were 9 in existence by 1937), and through courses at the Party's newly-established training colleges, the Philip Stott College at Overstone, Northamptonshire, and from 1929, Ashridge College, at Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire [for which see, Conservative Training Colleges: Bonar Law Memorial College, Ashridge]. In September 1937, the Central Education Committee became a sub-committee of the National Union's Executive Committee.

A separate Central Council of Conservative Teachers' Circles dealt with the Party's developing interest in the education of children, and coordinated the activities of the growing number of local Conservative Teachers Circles.

Other than newsletters, the records do not survive of any of these pre-War entities.

The recommendations of the Maxwell-Fyfe Committee on Party Organisation in 1947 led to the creation of National Advisory Committees in a number of key areas to facilitate better communication between the National Union and Conservative Central Office. Amongst these was the Conservative and Unionist Teachers' Association. The C.U.T.A was serviced by a new Education Department within Conservative Central Office, but in practice, the two were synonymous, with the Secretary or National Organiser of the C.U.T.A being based in Central Office, and the records subsequently created relate to the work and activities of the C.U.T.A.

In 1966, the Conservative and Unionist Teachers' Association changed its name to the Conservative National Advisory Committee on Education in acknowledgement of its wider remit concerning Education rather than teachers. In March 1994, the N.A.C.E ceased to exist, and has since been replaced by the Conservative National Education Society. No records of this latter organisation have yet been deposited in the Conservative Party Archive.