General Certificate of Education

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 January 1959.

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Photo of Sir Edward Boyle Sir Edward Boyle , Birmingham Handsworth 12:00, 22 January 1959

What the figures show clearly is that very many children are receiving advanced courses and extended courses in modern schools and that it is possible to do this without proceeding on doctrinaire lines with any proposals for insisting that all schools should cover the full range of abilities.