§ Mr. Beithasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science where the two courses of initial training for the postgraduate diploma in the teaching of the mentally handicapped approved for 1976–77 are to take place; and what is the permitted intake for each.
§ Mr. Gerry FowlerThe two courses of initial training for graduates intending to teach mentally handicapped children have been approved at the Department of Educational Studies, Leeds Polytechnic, and Redland College of Education, which is to be amalgamated by September 1976 with Bristol Polytechnic, for minimum intakes of 15 and 12, respectively. No upper limits were placed on recruitment, but numbers have to be contained within the institutions authorised targets for postgraduate courses of initial teacher training.