Departmental Committees Of Inquiry

Mr. Eggar
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many departmental committees of inquiry he and his predecessors, including Ministers of -------------------------
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|(iii) Universities†    ||||||||||
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 Education, have commissioned since 1955; and what were the subjects the committees investigated, the dates they were established, who chaired them and the dates they reported.

Sir Keith Joseph
[pursuant to his reply, 13 May 1985, c. 43–48]: I regret that the item about school examinations listed at column 47 was partly incorrect and that a reference to the report of the committee of inquiry into the teaching of mathematics in schools has been omitted. The information should read as follows: 'School examinations: report of the steering committee established to consider proposals for replacing the General Certificate of Education ordinary level and Certificate of Secondary Education examinations by a common system of examining. 1977 [1978].Chairman: Sir James Waddell.Mathematics counts: report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Teaching of Mathematics in Schools. 1978 [1981].Chairman: Dr. W. H. Cockcroft.'