Mr. R. C. Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether she is yet in a position to publish the report on the conference on comprehensive education held at the University of York last December; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsThe report has been published today by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, price £3.25. Copies are available in the Vote Office and in the Libraries of both House.
The conference was concerned with successful practices in individual comprehensive schools. Its main themes were the development of the individual pupil, the internal structure of schools, ages of transfer and patterns of reorganisation. Like the conference, the report will, I believe, make an important contribution 673W to the serious discussion of comprehensive education.