§ Mr. GOLDSTONEasked the President of the Board of Education whether he has 1354 seen a copy of the memorandum signed on behalf of the Incorporated Association of Assistant Masters in Secondary Schools, the Teachers' Guild, and the National Union of Teachers, in which it is jointly recommended that children from elementary schools should be transferred to secondary schools at about the age of twelve years; and whether he has yet decided to refer the question of the age of transfer of children to secondary schools to the consultative committee of the Board of Education?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANThe answer to both parts of the question is in the negative.