§ 36. Mr. J. Johnsonasked the Minister of Education how many independent schools have been inspected and recognised to the last convenient date; and how many of those inspected were deemed to be inefficient.
§ Miss HorsbrughSince Circular 196 was issued in January, 1949, 3,498 independent schools in England have been inspected under the arrangements described in the circular. The purpose of these inspections has not been to classify the schools as efficient and inefficient.
§ Mr. JohnsonThere must still be many thousands of schools kept by inefficient unqualified elderly females in suburbia. When does the right hon. Lady intend to inspect this particular kind of school?
§ Miss HorsbrughI think the hon. Gentleman will see from these figures that the work of inspection is continuing. I would like to add that it is not necessarily a bad education because it is given by an elderly female in a suburb.