Recruitment and Training of Teachers: Youth Leaders and Teachers in Young People's Colleges

Abstract

IN the second part of the McNair Report* it is significant that the sections on the supply, recruitment and training of youth leaders and teachers for young people's colleges have been grouped together. This implies a clear recognition that if the young people's colleges are to be successful, the more formal methods of the preceding school period will have to be dropped, and some of the spirit of informality which accompanied the growth of the youth movement and which has kept it vigorous and attractive will have to be preserved. Further, since the two services deal with approximately the same groups of young people, one attempting to meet their needs on the basis of compulsory and the other on the basis of voluntary attendance, Sir Arnold McNair's Committee insists that the foundations of the youth service must be laid during the years immediately following the break with full-time attendance at school.