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The Haslegrave Committee was set up in 1967, it reported in 1969 and TEC was set up in 1973. Many of the points put to and emitted from Haslegrave will therefore inevitably require re‐appraisal in the light of the additional experience and information that has become available in recent years. For example, since 1969 many ITBs have published training recommendations relevant to technicians and technician engineers; the Engineers' Registration Board (ERB) of the CEI has established criteria for the recognition of technicans and technician engineers; the school leaving age has been raised; fundamental changes are being mooted with respect to the whole examining structure at 16 plus; we have become members of EEC; the structure of manpower deployment in many engineering establishments has changed and not least the structure of the Industrial Training Act is about to be modified. Add to these a growing appreciation of the need to apply a more systematic approach to curriculum design and evaluation, and one perhaps obtains some idea of how Haslegrave, never a very exciting document anyway, has dated.