Mr. Colin Jacksonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give details of the scheme under which assistant teachers from West European countries are attached to schools in this country for practical experience, the number of teachers who came from each of the countries concerned in each of the six years from 1959–60 to 1964–65, the approximate average length of stay, the estimated cost to central and to local government funds in the same six years, and the estimated numbers and cost for the current financial year.
§ Miss Jennie LeeThe cost of these arrangements consists of administrative overheads, which are small and cannot be separated from other costs, and the salaries paid to those among the foreign teachers who do not come on a direct exchange basis, and whose salaries are not paid by their own Governments. It is not possible to make firm estimates under either heading.