ABSTRACT
The Minister of National Education is a politician and an administrator. He has to navigate in certain currents of power. Occasionally, a Minister has the will or the imagination to leave his mark on the educational system despite the politicians' tendency to move in and out of government from one ministry to another. For many years problems relating to the Ministry's internal organization have been recognized. These are chiefly the post-secondary schools of engineering, military science, commerce, administration and mining that are operated by other ministries. Some reorganization of the inspectorate took place in 1960 and 1961 when a combined corps of inspectors-general was made responsible to the Director-General of Organization and School Programmes. The relationship between external reforms and administrative adjustments has several times been demonstrated. The official announcement of the changes repeated the need for unity and introduced also an interpretation in different terms, namely those of pedagogical reform and the development of the orientation services.
