EDUCATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION. Memorandum by the President of the Board of Education.

Nor will criticism be merely destructive. Amendments bound to be moved that instead of the Lord President, Principal Secretaries of State, etc., there substituted so many representatives of Authorities, of teachers, so many of Universities, and so forth. be difficult to reconcile a Board composed in such the doctrine of Ministerial responsibility to The fact is that the President of the Board of Education the Minister of Education and is frequently so referred to. I have, therefore, come rather reluctantly that, if we are not to expose ourselves unnecessary criticism, we should do well to make the fit the facts and adopt the terms "Ministry of Education" and "Minister of Education" instead of the terms "Board of Education" and There is, I think, a strong case for emphasising the importance of the two bodies for England and Wales respectively which, in Clause 4(1) of the Bill, are called Central Advisory Councils.