§ Mr. DafisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will make it his policy to set out a new definition for technology in the national curriculum establishing the subject as a practical technical subject concerned with the design and manufacture of products and systems.
§ Mr. ForthThe current review of the statutory requirements for national curriculum technology aims to clarify the technical skills and knowledge which pupils should acquire at each stage of their compulsory education and in particular to ensure that these are developed through work with construction materials and related components and systems. When my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Education and for Wales have considered the review group's recommendations they will make a full statement.