Technology and the Renaissance Man

Among the most firmly established of teachers in CATs and colleges of technology is the English graduate. He is welcomed on all sides: administration regards him as proof that the humanities are suitably recognised; the technological faculties look to him hopefully as the source of better‐written reports on laboratory work from their students; the students themselves, not without reason, consider his lectures a welcome remission from the rigours of their technical studies. Conveniently disguised as a ‘Lecturer in Communications’, the English graduate continues to flourish. There is no lack of such posts to be found advertised in the educational press.