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In 1964 the National Advisory Council on Education for Industry and Commerce established a committee on the more effective use of technical college resources. Its first report, often known as the Pilkington Report after the committee's first chairman, was the notoriously incompetent enquiry into class sizes which was used to justify a decision about minimum course enrolments that had earlier been taken by the officials of the Department of Education and Science. That report made a bang but the second made only a whimper: this was the report published last year on the use of buildings and equipment. Both reports were typical products of stage army committees meeting in the Department to approve the homework of civil servants; the first was more significant than the second only because it was linked with specific administration action.