§ 77. Mr. Swinglerasked the Minister of Education, in view of the rise in the number of oversized senior classes, if he will now reconsider the provision of additional training college places for teachers and accept the National Advisory Council's recommendation to add at least 16,000 places.
§ Mr. Geoffrey LloydMy decision to add 12,000 places to the training colleges followed primarily from considerations about the staffing situation to be expected in the schools from 1963 onwards. I cannot agree that this decision affecting the future is invalidated by the relatively small rise which has already occurred in the number of over-sized senior classes.
§ Mr. Pitmanasked the Minister of Education if he will publish the names of the 12 teachers' training colleges whose costs, in total, per student per year were the least and those 12 whose costs were the greatest, together with such costs, in a form comparable with that given in his Answer of 8th March, 1956, and how many places for the training of teachers there are in the six smallest colleges and how many in the six largest, with the 167W cost per student, excluding and including loan charges in each case similarly calculated.
§ Mr. Geoffrey LloydI am sending this information to my hon. Friend.