§ Mr.Greenwayasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the names of 398W organisations in receipt of grants for research purposes, the sums involved in each case and the purpose of the research in question in the most recent convenient number of years; and if he will make a statement.
§ Sir Keith JosephThis information is published annually by the Department in "List 1: Current Educational Research Projects supported by the Department of Education and Science". Copies of List 1 for the years 1980 to 1984 inclusive are in the Library.
Ministers assess priorities for educational research by reference to the costs and to the extent to which the findings can be expected:
- (a) to guide policy decisions that need to be taken;
- (b) to improve the quality of the educational process in areas of policy concern;
- (c) to facilitate the implementation of policy decisions; or
- (d) to evaluate the effects of the implementation of policy decision.