Stop this waste of valuable manpower

During the past few years everyone has become aware of the enormous growth of our “higher education industry”—in 1948 only 100,000 were in full‐time higher education yet by 1973 the universities alone had 245,000 full‐time students, another 100,000 were following full‐time advanced courses in polytechnics or other colleges, 45,000 were in full‐time teacher training. In addition there are very large numbers studying part‐time for advanced qualifications—over 107,000 in 1973—and the Open University has about 40,000 following undergraduate courses.