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THE Right Hon. Oliver Stanley, president of the Board of Education, distributed prizes and certificates at the Northampton Polytechnic, Clerkenwell, on November 28. During the course of his address, Mr. Stanley referred to the changes which have been accelerated by the War and which have resulted in the loss of the advantage as an industrial nation which we acquired a century earlier. Yet with all these difficulties in the way of production, we have got to compete if we are to live; and we are being driven more and more to rely on superior skill, superior technique, superior training and superior workmanship, to take the place of those more fortuitous advantages which used to give us our superiority before the War. We can only regain the prosperity of our own traditional industries if we adopt new and up-to-date methods. We are forced to keep ahead of new and severe competition in the new industries, and it is natural that we should turn to institutions like the polytechnics to ask how they can help and are helping both with the old and with the new. Speaking of the type of training for which polytechnics are responsible, Mr. Stanley said that in talking with leaders of industry about technical education he has found everywhere the feeling that colleges should keep in closer touch with actual experience in the workshop. From this point of view he commended the ‘sandwich’ course of training in engineering, and expressed his regret on learning from the Principal's report that, owing to changes contemplated in the University of London regulations for degrees in engineering, difficulties have arisen with regard to the organisation of such a course in the future.
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Industry and Technical Education. Nature 136, 902 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136902b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136902b0