§ 22. Mr. Gwilym Robertsasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will take steps to ensure that greater emphasis is laid in schools and colleges on teaching and research in mathematics, science, engineering and other business-orientated subjects; and if he will make a statement.
§ Dr. BoysonOur document "The School Curriculum", published last March, recommended that mathematics and science should form part of the curriculum for all pupils up to the age of 16, and that in these as in other subjects more attention should be paid to their applications in adult and working life. Further work is being undertaken on questions concerned with the teaching of science in schools; and the report of the committee of inquiry into the teaching of mathematics in schools will be published shortly. A concern to prepare young people fully for life in a technological society informs our policy at all levels of education.