In addition, he said that all ministry officials who had served more than twenty-five years in the public service should be relieved of their duties, the only exceptions being individuals for whom suitable replacements could not be found. Furthermore, all officials who had served for twenty years and found to have insufficient quali- fications were to be dismissed, as was any official, regardless of their length of service, who had shown signs of opposition to the government or its plans for educational reform. A final suggestion was that the education council, a consultative body of offieials, should take a more active role in decision-making. The council, which had been under the jurisdiction of the minister, would instead become responsible to the Cabinet as a whole, a move which was designed to prevent any one individual dominating the ministry as had been the case in the past.