§ Mr. Watsonasked the President of the Board of Education how many schools in England and Wales have higher national certificate courses in mechanical and electrical engineering; how many hold external examinations and how many internal examinations in these courses; and in how many are compulsory questions introduced in these examinations.
§ Mr. ButlerIn 1943 higher national certificate courses in mechanical engineering were held at 100 schools and in electrical engineering at 85 schools. The schools normally conduct their own examinations, which are subject to revision of the examination papers and of the marking by assessors appointed by the professional institutions, but for mechanical engineering II schools and for electrical engineering 8 schools make use of examinations conducted by regional examining unions which are subject to revision in the same way as school examinations. No statistics are available as to the number of compulsory questions in higher national certificate examination papers, but the inclusion of such questions is infrequent.