ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses education for agriculture is taken to include also education for horticulture, agricultural engineering, estate management, poultry husbandry, dairying and forestry and, unless otherwise specified. The seriousness of the situation was recognized by the De La Warr Report which drew attention to the need for more extensive provision by local education authorities, in co-operation with the farming industry, for progressive part-time classes in working hours for all young workers, and for courses to lead to examinations of recognized standing. The Pilkington Report on Agricultural Education was issued in 1966. The Pilkington Report was unanimous in its view that this improvement in productivity can only be satisfactorily maintained if a much larger proportion of the entrants into agriculture receive adequate further education. The way in which courses in agricultural education have developed, that is apart from the rest of further education, has proved to be a mixed blessing.
