Higher Education
Sir,—The suggestion in your leading article of the need for “some wide-ranging inquiry perhaps a Royal Commission” for higher education is opportune. A committee similar to the Robbins Committee, perhaps? You omit any mention of teachers* colleges. Why? Compare the Robbins Report (para 308): “The Training Colleges in England and Wales and the Colleges of Education in Scotland alike feel themselves to be only doubtfully recognised as part of the system of higher education, and yet to have attained standards of work and a characteristic ethos that justify their claim to an appropriate place in it. The health Of the whole pub-
lic system of education depends upon the efficiency of the colleges: the problem is to define their place in terms of the two aspects of their work: that of providing a higher general education for increasing numbers of young people and that of providing teachers well prepared to meet the changing needs of the schools.”—Yours, etc., A. H. W. HARTE. April 19, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31659, 20 April 1968, Page 12
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