§ Professor Gruffyddasked the Minister of Education whether he will make a statement to this House on the recommendations of the Burnham Committee on Teachers' Salaries before they are finally approved by him under Section 89 of the Education Act, 1944.
§ Mr. ButlerNo, Sir. In the reply which I gave to the hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth (Sir. J. Mellor) a copy of which I have sent to my hon. Friend, I indicated that when the Burnham Committee came to submit scales of remuneration for teachers to me it would be open to any hon. Member to take such action as he thought fit to secure their consideration by this House.
§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Minister of Education whether he is aware that at the recent conference of Secondary School Associations there was a widely expressed fear that the proposed Burnham scales would further diminish the entry of graduate teachers to the schools and, in as much as the dearth of graduate candidates for the national schools is materially greater than it was three years ago and as the McNair Committee declared its conviction that it would be disastrous if the national system for the training of teachers were to be divorced from the work of the universities, he will give effect to the demand of the secondary teachers for a revision of these scales which would attract the university graduate.
§ Mr. ButlerI have already said in reply to earlier questions that new scales of salaries for teachers have not yet been submitted to me by the Burnham Committee, and that the powers with which the Minister is vested by Section 89 of 677W the Education Act, 1944, do not admit of his revising such scales as may be submitted to him.