4 JUNE 1965, Page 13

The Teacher Shortage

SIR.---I have been informed by the Department of Education and Science that. following the recom- mendations of the Burnham Committee, a graduate in physics from Uppsala. the principal university of Sweden, who had held a post-graduate scholar- ship at Harwell for a year and had later been awarded his PhD at Uppsala. could not, for salary purposes. as a physics master at a maintained grammar school, be considered to hold a good honours degree since his university was not in the Commonwealth.

Sir William Borlase's School. Marlow, Buckinghamshire

E. M. HAIL I TON

Headmaster