All‐Change at ‘A’‐level

IN A COMPACT report of 17 pages the Council has presented an exhaustive, though eminently readable, study of the problems that attend the ‘A’‐level examinations. While all its readers will not agree with the conclusions or even with some of the assumptions on which these are based, the facts are clearly set out in a rkmanlike fashion. The Minister has not rushed to indorse the recommendations of the report and, in king for the views of interested parties, he has precluded why immediate action. There will now follow that sequence of conferences, sub‐committees and working parties through which the associations and organisations make known their views to the Minister. With this mechanism grinding out relentlessly over the months — perhaps years — to come, new arrangements can hardly brought in before 1962 and possibly not before 1963.