ABSTRACT
Yellow Book A confidential report on standards in education compiled by civil servants in the Department of Education and Science in 1975 for the then Prime Minister, James Callaghan. It voiced many criticisms of primary and secondary schools which were reflected in Callaghan’s Ruskin College speech in October 1976. It proved to be the basis for the subsequent ‘Great Debate’, which included, amongst other things, discussion on the need for a national curriculum.
