§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Minister of Education if he is aware that county directors of education are giving preference for appointments in the national schools to emergency trained teachers who have just completed their training in competition with graduate teachers, as in an example submitted to him of a graduate of London University with long experience of teaching, whose application for a post was turned down in favour of a candidate who had been a trainee at a school where the graduate passed over was a teacher; and whether it is the policy of his Department to fill vacancies in the national schools with one-year trainees from the emergency colleges.
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§ Mr. TomlinsonThe answer to the first part of the Question is in the negative. As regards the second part of the Question, the appointment of teachers is a matter for the local education authorities and for the governors and managers of the schools concerned. I am writing to the hon. Member about the particular case which he brought to my notice.