however, by the spring of 1954, it was apparent that the solution was inadequate, with the school unable to provide a secondary education to its enrolees. the president of the high authority of the ecsc, jean monnet, invited representatives of the education ministers of the six founding member states of the ecsc to luxembourg for discussions on a school with intergovernmental status. the member state representatives transformed themselves into a board of governors, who would oversee the establishment of such a school. it was agreed that teaching staff would be seconded from the member states, who would continue to pay their salary, and that salaries would be harmonised by means of an additional supplement. on 12 october 1954, the first two years of the secondary school began to operate.