HC Deb 22 February 1957 vol 565 c108W
Mr. Owen

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education how many students of secondary modern schools, county by county, enter for the General Certificate of Education examination; and with what results.

Sir E. Boyle

The information is not available by counties. Provisional figures for England and Wales indicate that in 1956 nearly 9,000 secondary modern school pupils entered for the examination. They were successful in about half the subjects for which they entered.

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