The changing relationships between technical colleges and industry with particular reference to the training boards

Further Education is in a ‘flux and reflux of hopes and ideas’. White Papers, DES Administrative Memoranda, and Reports, succeed each other in rapid succession; advanced work is being hived off from Area Colleges to the Polytechnics; and some of the work of lower level to Sixth Form Colleges and Comprehensives; Regional Advisory Councils give or withhold approval for the establishment of new courses; and LEA Education Committees, by their control of the purse‐strings, can seriously interfere with the planned development of Colleges. It is with the doubts that afflict FE about their relationships with Industry and Commerce that this article is concerned.