Notes and News: ‘Training Boys in Industry — The Non‐Apprentice’ Available to Purchase

In publishing its booklet ‘Training Boys in Industry — The Non‐Apprentice’ on 23rd August, the Industrial Training Council showed itself flexible enough to execute yet another switch in policy. Originally wedded to the belief that the bulge was to be solved only by persuading large firms to expand their intake of craft apprentices, the Council has now seen the possibilities in the semi‐skilled sphere and has thus taken the second step up a ladder of about two dozen staves. Professional educationists, and readers of this journal in particular, will be aware that interest in the field of semi‐skilled training has been gradually mounting over the past year or two and, in this sense, the Council is following rather than giving a lead. But then, a committee is no device for leading, and the writers of this booklet have made no claim to be offering a revolutionary approach.