ABSTRACT
The scope of this chapter is wide and heterogeneous for it includes the provision proposed for day continuation work, technical and commercial education, technical training and agricultural education as well as the universities. With the exception of the universities, all of the varied institutions concerned came administratively within the responsibility of ‘T’ branch at the Board. The plans for these were generally much less controversial, received much less detailed attention and a lower degree of priority than those concerned with the reform of the school system. To some extent the plans themselves usually involved adding to, rather than possibly recasting, existing facilities — a less contentious operation than reforming. Secondly, the existing arrangements for what is now known as further and higher education affected a far smaller proportion of the population than they have since come to do. Thirdly, it is, perhaps, not unfair to comment that at the time ‘T’ branch covered such a varied collection of activities that the policies of the branch themselves seemed to acquire a somewhat amorphous and indeterminate character.
