RATIONALISATION: Higher Education‐The Polytechnics Available to Purchase

At the upper end of the authorty's formal education structure, the higher education branch encompasses the middle tier technical colleges, the aided colleges, teacher training, and the proposed polytechnics. Assistant education officer E. Walker has at his disposal 18 technical colleges and schools of art, nine commercial colleges, 11 aided colleges and nine colleges of education. Excluding the colleges of education, the other colleges have a combined student load of over 154 000. Among the maintained colleges are the London College of Printing (unique in England), the art schools of Chelsea, Camberwell, Central, Hammersmith and St Martin's, and the monotechnic colleges for building (Brixton), distribution, fashion, furniture and clothing.