A new voice for further education

The Industrial Training Act, the Central Training Council and fourteen existing Industrial Training Boards, with many more to follow, are providing the industrial training service with powerful national machinery, backed by enormous funds from the levy on employers. These national organizations naturally look for some corresponding body to speak for further education. The educational authorities have so far failed to face up to the need for such machinery and in the meantime a number of existing bodies are doing their best to fill the vacuum. The Department of Education and Science and local authorities should end the growing confusion.