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IN an address to the 1949 annual general meeting of the British Psychological Society, Sir Philip Morris attempted to forecast some of the problems which will have to be considered when county colleges are established. His remarks have now been published in a recent issue of Occupational Psychology (23, No. 3 ; July 1949). Sir Philip believes that there will be an insufficient understanding of the main aim and purpose of county colleges among all people concerned with them, particularly among the young people themselves, the employers who have so much influence over them and the parents. Another main problem is that county colleges will have only partial and in some respects ill defined aims on which to base their initial plans. For she young people themselves the degree of influence of the county college will comparatively be very much smaller than the degree of influence of any form of compulsory schooling now known. The employer's attitude to county colleges will be governed by the fact that in many cases boys and girls are being employed between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years in ways which do not necessarily bear any obvious relationship to their adult employment. The novel features of a large turnover of students in relation to accommodation at the county colleges as well as an extremely short ‘exposure’ of boys and girls to the influences of formal education may lead to a squeezing out of the curriculum of those activities which are more time-consuming than others—for example, practical work as opposed to arithmetic. The challenge of these problems may have the effect of giving a new turn to the attitude to education in Great Britain.
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County College Problems. Nature 164, 400 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164400c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164400c0