HC Deb 19 March 1936 vol 310 cc594-5
38. Mr. PARKER

asked the President of the Board of Education whether the arrangements sanctioned for a four-year course, with a commercial or technical bias developing in the last two years, at the new South-East Technical College, Dagenham, involve any change in the views of the Board of Education on the position and status of the selective central school?

Mr. STANLEY

The arrangements for a four-year course in the junior day school to be provided in the new South-East Technical College at Dagenham, have been approved by the Board for an experimental period of five years, having regard to the special circumstances of the area to be served. This proposal does not indicate any change in the Board's views as to the position and status of the selective central school.