Literacy

31.

Mr. Goodhart
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science which of the recommendations of the Bullock Report on Literacy she intends to implement before the end of 1977.

Miss Margaret Jackson
By August Her Majesty's inspectors will have completed the discussions to which I referred in my answer to a Question from the hon. Member on 17th May—[Vol. 932, c. 125]—and during the autumn they and the local education authorities concerned will be planning a programme of courses for teachers and advisers to take place in the spring and summer of 1978. The  courses will take account of the recommendations made in Chapter 24 of the Bullock Report.