§ Mr. Astorasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many General Certificate of Education O level passes were obtained by pupils attending secondary modern schools, nationally, and in Berkshire, respectively, in each of the years 1950, 1955, 1960 and 1965.
§ Mr. RedheadThe General Certificate of Education examination was held for the first time in 1951. Not all the later figures asked for are available, but I am informed that the numbers of subject passes obtained by secondary modern school pupils in the Berkshire local education authority's area were 96 in 1955, 640 in 1960 and 1,495 in 1964. A sample 313W survey shows that the pupils who left secondary modern and all-age schools in England and Wales in 1960–61 had obtained about 43,000 subject passes, and the same category of pupil in 1963–64 had obtained about 104,000 subject passes.