Comment: an open letter to Mr Fred Willey Available to Purchase

Dear Mr Willey, I hope you will forgive my presumption in offering some suggestions for the work of the parliamentary select committee of which you are chairman and which recently embarked on an enquiry into teacher training. I know that some members of your committee have the feeling that although it has enormous power and constitutional significance it has so far, in its investigations into HMIs and the student unrest, somehow failed to ‘bite’. Indeed it might be that if the committee had really got its teeth into its problems the government would have made much greater efforts to close it down.