ABSTRACT
The Advisory Committee on the Supply and Education of Teachers (ACSET) Working Group grasped very firmly, in spite of its obvious sensitivity, the question of the purpose, content, and tutor staffing of courses on special education. Any change might well reflect an attitude shift or a reappraisal of priorities but underlying any discussion on special education are issues that seldom come on the agenda of any commission or working party or find expression in legislation. Teachers are aware of the actual agenda to which the members of the ACSET Working Group gave their minds but it might be of interest to speculate about the mental agenda of some of its members, and others, that in the future might produce a very different kind of report. Certainly on this silent agenda would be issues like definition, dualism, and deficit model education, all of which bedevil progress at the present time in bringing together educational comprehensiveness for the handicapped.
