§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Minister of Education whether she is aware that Administrative Memorandum 48 imposes an increase of routine paper work on the staffs of high schools or secondary schools which have hitherto carried out a simpler and equally effective method of registration; and whether she will arrange that all schools, irrespective of type, should come under that or some similar system of registration, less expensive of time and effort than that enforced by Administrative Memorandum 48.
§ Miss WilkinsonA more exact method of registration is now necessary as the basis both of the administration of the new law of school attendance, which requires all children to receive with regularity education suited to their age, ability and aptitude, and also of the co-ordinated statistical information essential for the proper administration of the national system of education. The schools hitherto using the methods, of which those prescribed in the Administrative Memorandum are a simpler version, have not found the work involved an undue burden. I may add that I am considering whether certain forms of routine return previously rendered by secondary grammar schools only can be dispensed with.