Orders of the Day — Further and Higher Education Bill [Lords]

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 5:45 pm on 11 February 1992.

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Photo of Mr George Walden Mr George Walden , Buckingham 5:45, 11 February 1992

This is not a frivolous intervention. I am quite impressed by the Labour party's recognition of the need to stream in secondary schools as between the academic, the vocational and the technological, if I have understood the hon. Gentleman correctly. That is very much in the thrust of Government policy, although it goes only halfway. What is the logic of doing that at secondary level and then creating what I would regard as a dangerous mush between the academic and the technological and vocational at a higher level?