Stress, Strain and Liberalisation

MOST TECHNICAL teachers are agreed that liberalisation of studies is essential in technical colleges today. While this may be achieved quite easily in full‐time and sandwich courses it is not so simple to achieve in part‐time courses. National Certificate and City and Guilds courses are already tightly packed with vocational studies, and teachers are loath to give up any time spent on these technical studies. Nevertheless, some colleges devote one period each day to some form of liberal studies, and this is to be commended. But while a short time spent on a subject of cultural value such as a language, music, art, etc, may be of value in opening a student's eyes to wider visions, is it the full answer to the problem? Is it not rather like a cook icing a cake after she has forgotten to put any sugar in the cake mixture?