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APPENDIX A
STATISTICS AND EXPLANATION OF TERMS
School Leavers. Following are the estimated number of boys and girls leaving maintained schools. Throughout this period the number of boy leavers will be slightly more than half the totals given below:--
1955
1959
1961
1963
488,000
591,000
651,000
667,000
604,000
1965
2. The technical colleges covered by this appendix comprise about 500 technical or commercial establishments ranging from large colleges of technology to small technical institutes, and about 200 colleges or schools of art. They do not include evening institutes, or agricultural and horticultural colleges and farm institutes. The colleges are nearly all maintained by local education authorities. Their students are all attending of their own choice, or sometimes as a condition of their employment. Some 80 per cent. of their work is vocational. The great bulk of it is part-time.
3. Students.-The total number of students attending the colleges in 1954 is shown below. The figures in brackets are those for male students only:-
Under 17
(Nearest thousand) 18-20 21 and over
Total
Full-time...
33,000
13,000
13,000
60,000
(12,000)
(8,000)
(10,000)
(31,000)
Part-time day
215,000
80,000
77,000
372,000
(169,000)
(72,000)
(41,000)
(282,000)
Evening
225,000
149,000
434,000
818,000
(159,000) (105,000)
(246,000)
(509,000)
Total
473,000
242,000
524,000
1,250,000
(340,000)
(185,000)
(297,000)
(822,000)
4. Lower level work consists of junior and senior courses. Junior courses, usually lasting for one year, are mainly for school-leavers of 15 who need to continue their general education or to prepare for entry at 16 into industrial apprenticeship or commercial training. Senior courses are for those who have completed junior courses or have left school at 16 or 17. These courses usually continue for two or three years, and are of several kinds. Some are craft apprentice courses leading to qualifications prescribed by industry. Others prepare for the intermediate qualifications laid down by professional institutions. There are courses for the intermediate and final certificates of the City and Guilds of London Institute, for the General Certificate of Education (advanced level), for the Ordinary National Certificate* (part-time), the Ordinary National Diploma (full- time), the Intermediate Examination in Arts and Crafts and the Intermediate External Degree of London University.
5. Advanced courses are normally designed for those who have had a full- time education until 18 or a part-time education until 19. They mostly lead to the post-intermediate qualifications of the professional bodies, the City and Guilds full technological certificate, the Higher National Certificate* (part-time), the Higher National Diploma (full-time), the National Diploma in Design, the various diplomas and associateships of the technical colleges themselves or the
* Courses leading up to the Ordinary and Higher National Certificates have in recent years been held in Building, Chemistry, Applied Chemistry, Commerce, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgy, Mining, Naval Architecture, Allied Physics and Textiles; and leading up to the Higher National Certificate only in Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Production Engineering and Mining Surveying.
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