The Report of the Task Force on New Directions in Teacher Educa­tion dated 26 June 1996 has stated clearly the colleges' mandate for the next five years. They must begin to grant degrees in the four major programmes offered by the colleges, as Professor Errol Miller has reiterated. This is not merely recommendation but reality, because IO years before, Mico College moved into the BEd in Special Educa­tion (one programme); G. C.