CO129-562-3 Vacancies in education departments 27-5-1937 - 8-12-1937 — Page 14

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The result of interviewing the three

candidates recommended by the Board of Education

for the post of Senior Inspector of English Schools

is that both Mr. Mayhew and Sir Andrew Caldecott

favour the selection of Mr. Cuttle, on the

understanding

(a)

(b)

that it will be a case of secondment

from the Home service for a period of

years (preferably three), to which the

Board of Education will agree;

that while the person selected will be

eligible for promotion to Director of

Education in due course, there will be

no expressed or implied commitment to

him in this respect.

It will be seen from Mr. Mayhew's note on

the green slip below that the Board of Education are

particularly anxious to know by telephone not later

than tomorrow what is desired, and I understand that

this urgency is due to their own programme of posting

H.M. Inspectors at this season of the year. We

cannot reach any definite decision at such short

notice; although Mr. Mayhew was informally shown

the record files of the three candidates at the Board

of Education and was able to give some information to

Sir Andrew Caldecott and myself on these points when

we saw the candidates, we must, before definitely

offering the appointment to Mr. Cuttle, if that is

approved provisionally, obtain from the Board full

particulars regarding him. I suggest, however,

that Mr. Mayhew should be authorised to tell

Mr. Richardson (B. of E.) forthwith that

as

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