In Parliament: THE POSITION OF TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION

Abstract

In a notable maiden speech in the House of Lords on the Science and Technology Bill, Lord Brown said that a threat existed to the ‘wedding’ of science and technology. Science was now regarded in our universities as a more or less respectable branch of learning, but the same could not yet be said of its technological partner. For example, the output of graduate mechanical engineers fell by over 600 from 1960 to 1962. The number of graduate production engineers passing out from our universities and CATs in 1964 was a mere 64. The White Paper, Cmnd 2146, comments:

Citation

(1965), "In Parliament: THE POSITION OF TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION", Education + Training, Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 102-104. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb015540