§ Mr. Bullardasked the Secretary for Technical Co-operation whether he will make a statement about his plans in the field of technical education and training.
§ Mr. VosperI am setting up a Council for Technical Education and Training for Overseas Countries, with a chairman from industry, to focus and intensify the British effort, non-governmental as well 187W as governmental, in this important field. The Council, which will begin its work early in April, will have the following terms of reference:
To give advice and expert assistance to H.M.G. and others as may be required with a view to promoting technical and commercial education and training for developing countries, and for this purpose, inter alia:
- (a) to furnish advice and information and to promote contacts between those concerned with such education and training in the United Kingdom and in developing countries;
- (b) to promote and where appropriate to undertake the recruitment of staff for service overseas in this field; and
- (c) to facilitate the training and education in the United Kingdom of trainees, teachers and others from developing countries.
Its composition will be as follows:
Mr. F. J. Pedler, M.A. (Chairman)—Director of Unilever and Joint Managing Director of The United Africa Company.
Mr. A. P. Blair, M.A.—Formerly adviser to Shell International on career development, recruitment and educational projects.
Mr. G. Bosworth, M.A., M.I.E.E., A.M.I.Mech.E., F.R.S.A., A.R.Ae.S., Director of Group Personnel Services, English Electric Co. Ltd.
Sir Christopher Cox, K.C.M.G.—Education Adviser, D.T.C.
Miss I. S. Gibson, O.B.E., J.P., B.Sc.—Principal, Glasgow and West of Scotland College of Domestic Science.
Mr. E. M. Hyde-Clarke, D.Sc.—Director, Overseas Employers' Federation.
Sir Willis Jackson, D.Phil., D.Sc., Hon.S.C.G.I., M.I.E.E., M.I.Mech.E., F.R.S.—Professor of Electrical Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology.
Mr. J. C. Jones, C.B.E., B.Sc., A.M.I.C.E., M.I.Mech.E.—Technical Education Adviser, D.T.C.
Major-General C. Lloyd, C.B., C.B.E., T.D., B.Sc., F.Inst.P.—Director-General, City and Guilds of London Institute.
Mr. J. Marsh—Director, British Institute of Management.
Mr. J. P. Martin-Bates, M.A.—Principal, Administrative Staff College, Henley-on-Thames.
Mr. J. A. R. Pimlott, C.B., B.Litt., B.A.—Under-Secretary, Further Education Branch. Ministry of Education.
Dr. J. E. Richardson, C.B.E., Ph.D., B.Eng., M.I.E.E., A.M.I.Mech.E.—Principal, The Polytechnic, Regent Street.
Mr. C. J. Ritchie, O.B.E.—Home Division. British Council.
Dr. E. A. Thompson, M.A. (Com.), B.Sc. (Econ.), Ph.D., M.I.I.A.—Principal, Scottish College of Commerce, Glasgow.
Mr. P. Trench, O.B.E., T.D., B.Sc., F.I.O.B—Director, National Federation of Building Trades Employers.
188WDr. G. E. Watts, M.A., Ph.D., B.Sc., F.R.I.C.—Principal, Brighton Technical College.
Mr. D. Winnard—Secretary, Education Department, Trades Union Congress.
Mr. R. E. Wood, M.Sc., F.Inst.P.—Principal, Leicester College of Technology and Commerce.
The Council will take over the functions of the Council for Overseas Colleges of Arts, Science and Technology, which has been concerned with assisting the development of institutions of technical education overseas, and also those of the Advisory Committee on Facilities for Commonwealth Trainees in the United Kingdom Trade and Industry. It will, I hope, help to keep an appropriate balance between what is best done to provide assistance overseas and what should be done by way of technical training and education in this country.
My Department will draw heavily upon the Council for advice, and I hope that others, including industry, will do so too. I hope too that the Council will help to establish a close relation between what is done in technical education institutions and what is done in industry and that it will explore ways of helping Governments and industry to assess their needs, to put existing facilities to joint use and to co-operate in future developments.