HC Deb 19 February 1948 vol 447 cc1317-8
30. Mr. K. Lindsay

asked the Minister of Education how many new residential colleges for adult education have been established since the 1944 Act; and how many of such colleges have ceased operation.

Mr. Tomlinson

According to my information eleven residential colleges and centres of adult education, established since the 1944 Act, are in operation and others are projected. I am not aware that any of the colleges have ceased to operate.

Mr. Lindsay

Would the Minister encourage this movement because there are large numbers of young men and young women who will not be able to get into the universities for the next two years, and this is the only way available to them of getting an equivalent education?

Mr. Tomlinson

We are encouraging this to the greatest extent possible by the provision of buildings that do not require the utilisation of much labour and materials for their conversion.