Mr. J. E. B. Hillasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether the clearing house for teachers' 458W training colleges succeeded in filling all available places in these colleges for the current year; and what number of suitable men and women candidates failed to obtain places.
§ Mr. CroslandThe general, housecraft and physical education colleges have responded admirably to my appeals in accepting over 29,000 non-graduate students for initial training courses; this is some 4,500 more than the number they were planning to admit when the year's recruitment began.
223 acceptable candidates (105 men and 118 women) remained unplaced for various reasons. A further 812 "near-acceptable" candidates (345 men and 467 women) were also unplaced; many of these were advised to re-apply after further study.