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Page 287 (b) in order to support the increase in technologists and to provide for the rapidly growing numbers who will be coming forward from the schools, to expand substantially the capacity for training technicians and craftsmen and to strengthen the trend towards part-time day rather than evening classes;

(c) for these purposes, to step up the rate of building for technical education, so as to start projects to the value of £70 million during the next five years, planned on a regional basis;

(d) to prepare for recruiting the teaching staff necessary to support this

expansion;

(e) to lay a White Paper describing our plans when Parliament comes back

in January.

December, 1955

D. E.

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