§ Mr. K. Lindsayasked the Minister of Education how many local education authorities have established adult education colleges; and what central machinery she has devised for encouraging the development of such colleges.
§ Miss WilkinsonTwenty local education authorities have taken, or are taking, steps to secure the provision of adult education colleges, in some cases working in cooperation, either directly or by aiding schemes sponsored by voluntary bodies. Sites and premises for 12 such colleges have either been acquired or are about to be acquired. One is now operating and arrangements for opening a number of the others are in an advanced stage. Adult education colleges form part of the provision of further education and their development does not, I think, call for separate central machinery.