§ Mr. Willeyasked the Minister of Education whether he will make a statement on the work of the standing committee and the special working party of the National Advisory Council on the Training and Supply of Teachers on the supply of graduate teachers of mathematics.
§ Sir E. BoyleThis important question is being studied by a Steering Committee comprising representatives of the universities, the schools and my Department, under the chairmanship of Sir Nevill Mott. Last year the Committee compiled a booklet, published jointly by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Associations, setting out in detail for the guidance of the schools the courses available at each university in Great Britain for an honours degree in mathematics, specifying their scope and entrance requirements. I am sending the hon. Member a copy of this booklet, and would like to draw his attention to the Prefatory Note which records the origin of this Committee in a decision of the National Advisory Council on the Training and Supply of Teachers in 1961. The Committee is at present engaged on a study of the latest available information about admissions to the mathematics departments of universities in relation to the needs of the schools.