ABSTRACT
Industrial training in Britain has always been inadequate for the nation’s needs. The creation of the MSC in 1973 did little to alter this reality, but it resulted from the perceived failure of the Industrial Training Act of 1963. The 1964 Act had set up industrial training boards (ITBs) for key industries, and reflected a belated recognition that statutory intervention had become necessary. The inadequacy of British industrial training is symptomatic of the generally retarded nature of British technical education, compared to other industrial societies, and the roots of the phenomenon are complex.
