§ 93. Mr. MacNEILL WEIRasked the Under-Secretary to the Scottish Board 1671 of Health why the Scottish Education Department, in pursuance of the policy laid down in Circular 44, are proposing to limit ox1 abolish the intermediate schools which provide for a three years' course in higher education, seeing that the Education (Scotland) Act, 1918, Section 6 (1) (a), specifically enjoins upon education authorities a scheme for the adequate provision throughout the education area of the authority of all forms of primary, intermediate, and secondary education in day schools?
§ Captain ELLIOTThe hon. Member would appear to be under some misapprehension. Whilst Circular 44 foreshadows the discontinuance of the Intermediate Certificate in its present form, it does not propose to limit or to abolish intermediate schools as denned in the Education (Scotland) Acts.