asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science which bodies have commented on the Keohane committee's report on proposals for a certificate of extended education since it was published; and if he will indicate the kind of comments he has received.
The Schools Council, the local authority associations, teacher associations, the school examination boards and further education examining bodies, the CBI and the TUC have all commented on this Report. A little over half the replies received generally support the introduction of a CEE as recommended by the Keohane Group. The remainder are either opposed on education grounds to the underlying philosophy of a single subject examination with no necessary vocational bias, or question the wisdom of inaugurating a separate new examination alongside existing examinations for a similar target group who follow pre-employment courses in further education.