School‐industry liaison: A county scheme

Much is heard these days about the vital need to bring education (particularly in the schools) and industry more close together. Not least in this, the Prime Minister's call for a Great Debate on education and the Secretary of State's Green Paper or Consulative Document on education emphasise the vital need to bring the schools and industry more closely together. Of course the trouble with clarion calls to action on a national scale is that they tend to give the impression that nothing at all has been done in the particular field under scrutiny. It is a real danger that the intelligent man in the street is likely to gather from reportage of the regional conferences which the Secretary of State for Education & Science held after the Prime Minister's call that nothing has been, or is being, done about it.