HC Deb 08 July 1980 vol 988 cc102-3W
20. Mr. Blackburn

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will take measures to encourage teachers to become a self-governing profession analogous to doctors or lawyers.

Dr. Boyson

My right hon. and learned Friend would like to see teaching as a self-governing profession: if the parties concerned could agree on the basis on which a teachers' professional council might be established, he would readily play his part in taking the matter forward.