§ Mr. Ronald Brownasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a table showing (a), how many serving teachers applied to be released for a diploma course in remedial education, (b) how many were successful and (c) how many were refused, during the period 1970 to the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. Gerry FowlerThe information at (a) and (c) is not collected by my Department. One-year or equivalent courses concerned with the education of children with learning difficulties, including courses in remedial education, were attended by the following numbers of serving teachers:
1969–70 … … … … 70 1970–71 … … … … 86 1971–72 … … … … 116 1972–73 … … … … 189 1973–74 … … … … 208