§ 61. Mr. McSHANEasked the President of the Board of Education on what grounds he has recently sanctioned, in the case of the Staffordshire education committee, the retention of the services of a schoolmaster beyond 65 years of age?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Morgan Jones)The Board have recently granted the headmaster of the mixed department of the Shelfield Council School continued recognition beyond the age of 65 pending the reorganisation of the schools in the area. It is proposed that the mixed department shall be discontinued next year, and the school will then be used for junior children only. The headmaster is especially fitted to continue 2284 in his post, and my right hon. Friend sees no reason to disagree with the view of the local education authority that it would be undesirable to make a change of head teacher for so short a period.