Education Report
Sir,—Bureaucracy, as Parkinson has recently reminded us, has, like a cancerous growth, an ineluctable propensity to proliferate, and the bureaucracy that controls our system of education is no exception to this universal law. If anyone doubts this, let him read chapter 3 of the recent Report on Education, which, as Mr Greenwood remarked, reads as if it were written by the Department of Education. Or, as I would put it, by bureaucrats in the interests of bureaucracy. Indeed, in my view, the whole report is essentially a vehicle for presenting to Parliament and the general public the present policy of the Department of Education. In future, such reports may become unnecessary, for the commission has recommended “the appointment of a small group of officers of publicity and information’’ to attend to “the extremely important field of public relations.” If this small group is appointed, it will be quite interesting to watch it grow.—Yours, etc., ' G.H.D. September 19, 1962.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29932, 20 September 1962, Page 3
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