ABSTRACT
During 1965 Association of Teachers in Colleges and Departments of Education and Conference of Institute of Directors feared that the colleges of education were to be removed from the university institutes of education and placed entirely on the local authority side of the binary divide. When the Association submitted its evidence to the Select Committee in July 1969 there was little discussion of possible diversification in the colleges of education. The idea that the colleges of education should broaden their scope beyond teacher training courses was not new. The Robbins' predictions for the mid-1960s were correct, but, during 1968 and 1969, as the estimates for the demand and supply of teachers came closer together, these suggestions came into prominence again. Throughout 1969, partly because of the activities of the Select Committee, the pressure to hold a further enquiry into teacher training grew. Many universities were criticized for being slow to approve arrangements which enabled serving teachers to obtain BEd degrees.
