§ Mr. Ken Hargreavesasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the outcome of his request to Her Majesty's senior chief inspector of schools to consider a new style of annual report based on the Inspectorate's observations over a full academic year.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerHer Majesty's senior chief inspector of schools has set in train preparatory work aimed at developing a new style of annual report which will offer a view of the nature, quality and effectiveness of education in schools and colleges over a whole academic year rather than just one term. The inspectorate's programme for the academic year 1987–88 has of necessity been planned and launched without the benefit of this work. But I have asked the SCI to consider whether it would be possible to publish in 1989 a transitional report covering that academic year. The first full report in the new style will relate to the academic year 1988–89 and I hope to be able to publish it early in 1990.