ABSTRACT
The Act provides for the appointment of a Central Training Council (CTC), a body representative of employers, trade unions, the nationalized industries, education and chairmen of Industrial Training Boards. Until 1964, the responsibility for training workers in industry and commerce devolved upon the industries themselves and was governed only by collective agreements between the employers and the trade unions. However important the advisory and public relations roles of the CTC may be, undoubtedly the essential change brought about by the Industrial Training Act has been the creation of the Industrial Training Boards, which must decide what the Act means in practice and how to raise the money to implement its recommendations. In response to the criticisms, the government set up an enquiry into the work of the industrial training boards and, at the time of writing, its review is nearing completion.
