TV TEACHING FOR FARMERS

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30737, 29 April 1965, Page 25

TV TEACHING FOR FARMERS

Suggestion At Lincoln Lincoln College could make great use of television in reaching fanners with its educational programmes, said Mr J. F. G. Blakely at a meeting of the college council. Dr. M. M. Burns said he entirely agreed. “It’s one that will have to come,” he said. “We haven’t approached the television people yet, but we have some TV personalities here.” The discussion arose from Dr. Burns’s report that staff groups touring country districts had found that attendances at meetings were directly affected by the quality of television reception in the area.

Where reception was good, attendances were poor. Where reception was poor, attendances at the meetings were better. “It seems clear,” said Dr. Burns, “that whistle-stop tours must be replaced by residential farm schools covering several days.” Dr. Burns said that because of the increasing calls being made on the staff to participate in regional conferences and farm schools organised by the Department of Agriculture, and the great number of tours undertaken with student classes, it was very doubtful whether continuation of the type of tour formerly undertaken was possible or could be justified.