Throwback

Abstract

On 21 February the ILEA will debate (or, by the time we are at press, will have debated) the present proposals for comprehensive reorganization in the city. Their conclusions will be predictable, the small‐voice arguments of the opposition acrimonious, and the proposals as prejudiced and ill‐conceived as we said they were last November. One thing only will have changed. This time the Conservative majority will rightly be able to claim that it is Mr Gordon Walker and not Mr Chataway who has nailed the coffin of true reorganization over the next few years. Indeed Mr Chataway stands, on his latest statements, in a much more favourable position than he did four months ago. He still holds to the belief that selection and total entry can exist side by side, and Mrs Townsend (ILEA vice‐chairman) will still steer through measures that are counter‐productive and in some areas socially vicious. None of this can comfort the Labour group.

Citation

(1968), "Throwback", Education + Training, Vol. 10 No. 3, pp. 91-91. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb015933