§ 44. Mr. Dalyellasked the Minister of Education whether he will set up a committee to inquire into the possibilities of recruiting part-time professors extraordinary for industry to lecture and give tuition in the colleges of advanced technology.
§ Mr. ChatawayArrangements of this kind, which my right hon. Friend agrees are wholly desirable, were recommended by the Special Committee on the Supply and Training of Technical Teachers which reported in 1956, and the matter has been reviewed since then by a special committee of the National Advisory Council on the Training and Supply of Teachers and by a committee set up by the Federation of British Industries. Some colleges already have successful schemes in operation and what is needed now is not another committee, but continuing effort by individual colleges to make contact with suitable firms to extend these arrangements.