HC Deb 20 December 1957 vol 580 cc124-5W
Mr. Cooper

asked the Minister of Labour whether he will make a statement about the deferment of science and engineering graduates in 1958.

Mr. Iain Macleod

Yes. After consulting my Technical Personnel Committee, I have decided that science and engineering graduates with second class honours who have also taken a higher degree, and who complete a course of study or training in 1958, may be granted indefinite deferment on taking any employment in this country for which a science or engineering qualification of degree standard is required. Indefinite deferment will also be granted next year to graduates with third class honours or pass degrees in chemistry or one of the biological sciences, and to graduates with ordinary or general degrees in science, if they take an approved teaching post in a secondary school.

These arrangements are additional to those which have applied to science and engineering graduates in 1957, which will he continued in 1958.