§ Mr. Pardoeasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science which of the relevant bodies have now accepted the recommendations of the Working Party on the Teachers Council; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mr. van StraubenzeeAll the bodies represented on the working party, except the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions and the National Union of Teachers, have, in broad terms and in some cases with reservations, accepted its recommendations. My Department has circulated to each of the bodies a statement of the views expressed and has suggested that, if there is widespread feeling among teachers that the matter should be further pursued, the teachers' associations may wish to see whether they can formulate among themselves 181W agreed proposals on which they judge that it will be possible to secure the agreement of all the interests concerned.