Old Schools

HC Deb 23 January 1963 vol 670 cc81-2W

Mr. Beaney

asked the Minister of Education what plans he has for the rebuilding of slum-schools.

Sir E. Boyle

Current building programmes include many projects for the replacement or improvement of old schools, mainly secondary schools. This follows from the policy set out in the 1958 White Paper for the years 1960–65. I am not yet ready to make a statement on my plans beyond this period.

—	Total number of general colleges	Number of colleges with no graduates lecturing in mathematics	Number of colleges with more than one lecturer in mathematics
Men's colleges	14	—	14
Women's colleges	60	7	37
Mixed colleges	49	2	41
Total	123	9	92

Mr. Willey

asked the Minister of Education if he will state the number of men's, women's and mixed training colleges, respectively, with no graduate physical science lecturer and no graduate biological lecturer, respectively.

Sir E. Boyle

The information in the specific terms requested is given in the following table. But only four of the colleges included in columns (2) and (3) are without graduates lecturing in "natural science" or "general science", which normally includes biology and some physics and chemistry.