§ 1. Miss Quennellasked the Minister of Education how many establishments of further education offer full-time courses for the first year of apprenticeship.
§ 12. Mr. Prenticeasked the Minister of Education how many full-time first-year apprenticeship courses are now being conducted in local technical colleges; what was the comparable figure a year ago; and what expansion is planned.
§ Sir E. BoyleEighty-four technical colleges are offering 108 full-time first-year apprenticeship courses, and 120 colleges are offering 146 pre-apprenticeship courses which exempt from the first year of apprenticeship. The comparable figures a year ago were 76 colleges offering 91 courses and 95 colleges offering 112 courses, respectively. It is for each local education authority to decide how far it can develop such provision in co-operation with industry, but, as envisaged in the White Paper on Industrial Training, I look forward to a substantial expansion.