§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what efforts his Department is making to encourage more girls to study science at school.
§ Dr. BoysonThe Department has repeatedly called for equal curricular opportunities to be made available to boys and girls. Her Majesty's Inspectors' publication "Girls and Science"—HMSO 1980—offers practical suggestions for schools. Last month my Department and the Welsh Office published a consultative document entitled "Science Education in Schools" which sets out the objective of providing a broad science programme for all pupils and emphasises the need for genuinely equal curricular opportunities in science for boys and girls.