No time for half measures

A half‐educated society doing half a job — this is the description of the UK as given by Dr George Tolley, Higher Education Adviser to the Training Agency, in the Comino Lecture given at the Royal Society of Arts, London, in May. The very real achievements in the economy have not eradicated the shortcomings of a society in which low aspirations and low expectations still characterise a large part of the population. The low aspirations and low expectations are reflected in low achievement. He stressed: “Our major problem in this country is the distrust of education, not the distrust of industry”.