§ Dr. Mawhinneyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many circulars and other forms of general guidance his Department issued during the months January to April in 1978, 1979 and 1980.
§ Mr. Mark CarlisleThe numbers of communications of this kind sent by my Department to local education authorities generally are as follows:
of the O and A-level passes achieved by State secondary pupils in that year were obtained by grammar schoolchildren.
§ Dr. BoysonIn January 1947, 4.2 per cent. of pupils in maintained secondary schools—including middle deemed secondary schools—in England were in grammar schools. For pupils leaving maintained schools in England during the academic year 1978–79 provisional figures of the percentages of all O and A-level passes achieved at school by pupils leaving grammar schools were 13.8 per cent. and 17.6 per cent. respectively.
§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if, on the basis of figures available for the 1978–79 A and O-level examination results, it is possible to indicate the number of A and O-level passes likely to be obtained by an average secondary pupil entering the first year of a State comprehensive, a State grammar, a direct grant and an independent secondary school, respectively, in the 1970s.
§ Dr. BoysonProvisional figures of the average numbers of O and A-level passes 539W obtained at school by pupils leaving school in 1978–79 from the various types
Comprehensive Grammar Total maintained Direct grant Independent Total nonmaintained Average number of: O-level passes … 1.5 5.6 1.6 Not available Not available 5.7 A-level passes … 0.3 1.4 0.3 2.2 1.5 1.7 The school type shown relates to the designation of the school in 1978–79. Many schools will have been reorganised during the time those leaving schoool in 1978–79 were at school so that the results shown here are only an approximation to the average number of passes which might have been obtained by pupils entering the different types of school in the early 1970s.