§ Mr. Willeyasked the Minister of Education whether he will make a statement on the result of the appeal to teachers of pensionable age to postpone their date of leaving teaching.
§ Sir E. BoyleBetween October 1960, just before my predecessor appealed to teachers to postpone their retirement, and October 1963, the number of full-time teachers in maintained primary and secondary schools aged 60 and over rose from 8,771 to 9,868.
It is not, of course, possible to say to what extent this increase was due to the appeal.