§ Mr. A. J. Beith (Berwick-upon-Tweed)I beg to ask leave to present a petition in the name of the Reverend Maurice Sidney Wainwright and approximately 150 signatories.
The humble petition of lecturers in colleges of further, technical and higher education and others humbly prays that your Honourable House will
- 1. Make statutory provision to replace sections 43 to 47 of the Education Act 1944;
- 2. Consolidate the national aims for further and higher education as follows:
Aims of Tertiary Education, Further and Higher.It shall be the overall aim of full-time and part-time education in all schools, colleges and institutions in receipt of public funds providing education at tertiary stages of further and higher levels to provide a general, social, political and fully liberal education by the inclusion among other things of non-special non-vocational studies in all courses
- (a) to form an appropriate background and perspective to any special or vocational studies,
- (b) to assist young people to prepare for the responsibilities of citizenship,
- (c) to enable young people to develop fully their various aptitudes and capacities, including the practice of arts and crafts and physical recreations,
in and for a better democratic, technological and social world for themselves and for the present and future generations.3. Arouse public opinion and promote public debate by—amongst other things—(d) the issue of a new Circular … and the incorporation of that aim in a new Education Act for Tertiary Education.And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
§ To lie upon the Table.