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SCOTLAND, a country that has long been education-conscious, is fully alive to the importance of technical education in modern social life, and the Interim Report on Technical Education recently issued by the Special Committee of the Advisory Council on Education in Scotland (H.M. Stationery Office, Edinburgh, 3d.) advocates national planning on an extensive scale in order to bring training facilities within the reach of all. The core of the planning consists in the proposed establishment of a National Advisory Council for Technical Education, and four regional advisory councils (with a fifth for the Highlands, if necessary), all fully representative of industrial, commercial and educational interests, in order to survey both national and local requirements and to coordinate development schemes. The needs of part-time as well as full-time students have been considered in connexion with the organization of central institutions and local technical colleges, the former capable of dealing with work of the most advanced type and in some cases performing the functions of peak institutions for specialized subjects; technical instruction is also envisaged in the new colleges for compulsory further education of young persons and in voluntary day and evening classes where technical colleges cannot be established. It is realized that the new proposals will involve heavy financial commitments, and the National Council would therefore be required to make recommendations to the Secretary of State as to expenditure that is desirable. The proposals in the report are on a bold scale and well calculated to produce a system of technical education to match the great literary and academic achievements of Scotland, which have perhaps in the past tended to obscure the activities of the technician, the artisan and the craftsman.
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Technical Education in Scotland. Nature 155, 421–422 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155421d0
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