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IN his presidential address before the annual Whitsuntide conference of the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions held in London, Mr. C. J. Tirrell referred to some of the major problems now emerging from attempts to implement the 1944 Education Act in the technical field. At the level of secondary education, past successful experience with junior technical schools will be of great value in the establishment of practical and realistic curricula, while the extension of the school-life under the Act to at least five years opens up a wide field of educational experiment in the technical secondary school, without prejudging the issue as to the extent to which the 'multi-lateral' idea may be applied. An extension of the system of part-time day release is essential if practical experience and theoretical study are to be properly correlated, and there is an obvious need for a central council to bring together the universities, technical colleges and industry, if higher technological education is to maintain contact with industrial practice in all its stages of development. Moreover, the great importance of craftsmanship to the many small industrial firms (some 100,000) seems to demand the establishment of new national certificates in craftsmanship which would ensure due attention being paid to the necessary technical background underlying all aspects of vocational training.
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Survey of Technical Education, 1944–45. Nature 155, 629 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155629a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155629a0