THE NEWLY APPOINTED INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS: AN ASPECT OF MANAGEMENT.

This article reports that the inspectorial roles of the British Ministry of Education and the Local Education Authority are in essence complementary, as expressed in a former Board of Education Report 1922-23--the one supervises education over the whole country for the purpose not only of safeguarding the parliamentary grant, but of administering in convenient fashion results and suggestions derived from continuous recorded observations; the other must supervise and provide for the various grades of education taken together and in their actual relationships within the particular area. The most important priority for Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools is to interpret to the local education authority in acceptable fashion the wishes of the Minister of Education, to ensure that Ministry and Local Education Authority work together in harmony. As a corollary, he also helps the Minister understand the point of view of the Local Education Authority, for their partnership is fundamental to successful administration. Inspector therefore humanizes administration, he is an educational ambassador. Moreover, he represents a most useful of fictions in his independence of the Ministry of Education.