ABSTRACT
For a hundred years and more many countries have had — and still have -vocational colleges designed to prepare, either by full-time or part-time courses, those who have left school for a wide range of jobs. It is only in the past twenty years or so that there has been a marked tendency for some of these to be recognized as themselves institutions of higher and technological rather than of technical and further education. One reason for this has been a vast expansion of the demand for highly trained men and women to carry on responsibility in an increasingly complex society, dependent upon a supply of experts to run it: computers, transport, the health and social services, catering, marketing and a hundred other careers are needing people of graduate qualifications to staff them.
