Two issue at Preston

It had to be dealt with as a separate issue, otherwise the strike might have been more prolonged.' Cronin will now divide his time between London and Preston for an indefinite period in an attempt to 'cement better relations between the men and the docks management. . . . He would, however, give priority to Preston'. (Lancashire Evening Post', October 18.)

f2 of the settlement is described as 'modernization pay'. contribution towards their children's schooling.' Commenting on the shortage of books in some Kingston schools he said :

It has a lot to do with the government's general cut-back on education expenditure. Headmasters are now finding the money problem getting tougher and tougher.

'The decision to ask parents to supply certain books rests finally with the individual headmaster' SURVEY However fee paying and related schemes are not conjured up out of the heads of Tories and administrators.

The Labour government's own statistical survey, published by the Department of Education and Science (DES) last Friday, October 17, shows that it is quite unprepared to meet the demands for higher education expected in 1975 and unable to finance it.

The government has revised upwards the figures of the school population for 1975.

The education budget will need to increase by £5,000 by 1980. By then it will be consuming 8 per cent of the gross national product compared with 5 per cent now.

'The Times' comments on the inexorable logic of the statistics is that any expansion of higher education and nursery schools 'can be met only by increasing rates and taxes or the introduction of more fee elements into the system' It is interesting that "The Times' should single out higher education and nursery schools, because it is in these fields that Wilson has appointed two new ministers.