The publication of the first findings of the Pilkington Committee, dealing with the size of classes and the rationalization of courses will be followed by the second part of the report dealing with the utilization of resources in technical education, and it is being anticipated by some that the result may well be a recommendation that colleges work a 44–48 week year. Certainly the idea of four 11 or 12 week terms has been ventilated for some years as a means of getting a better return on the vast capital investment that has been pumped into technical colleges during the last decade.
The Road Transport Industry Training Board was the sixteenth to be established — a middle generation Board which, coming into being three years ago in September, 1968, has now about two years of operational activity behind it. The Board includes in its scope the Motor Vehicle Retail and Repair Industry (garages), the Road Hauliers (lorries) and the Passenger Industry (buses), together with Furniture Removal, Warehousing, Cold Storage and more recently Vehicle Body Repair, and the Agricultural Machinery Distributors and Repairers. This grouping of activities has resulted in a large Board, the 27 members of which are drawn equally from employers, the trade unions and education.
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