§ 64. Mr. SumbergTo ask the Secretary of Srtate for Education and Science if it is possible to estimate the number of secondary schools that maintain tangible links with local industry through inviting industrialists to speak to pupils or organising field trips to local industrial sites as part of the school curriculum.
§ Mr. ButcherThe information with which to estimate the number of secondary schools with these specific links is not available. However, on the basis of two surveys conducted in 1987 and 1988, it is possible to state that well over two thirds of secondary schools have regular links with local industry.