ABSTRACT
A striking feature of the post-war world has been the outstanding rate of increase in the enrolment of schools and colleges. Crude statistics show that during the ‘fifties the number of children enrolled in primary schools rose by 57 per cent. At the secondary school level the rise was 81 per cent and in higher education 71 per cent—or, depending on the level of education, a growth of between 5 and 7 per cent per annum (compound). Another index of this phenomenon is that in Africa first school enrolment rose from 38 per cent of the age-group in 1958–63 to 51 per cent in 1963. Some idea of the relative speed of these growths can be obtained by remembering that in 1965 the hope was expressed that the United Kingdom’s annual growth in production might reach 4 per cent.
