County Apprentice

Abstract

Two years have now passed since the appearance of the first hushed rumours that certain Local Education Authorities were preparing to make revolutionary changes in the national organisation of craft apprenticeship. Some schemes have been abandoned, others postponed — perhaps indefinitely. One has the impression that some LEA's, themselves with schemes half‐prepared, are waiting to see which way the wind will blow; if there has been a race, it has been one in which the runners were constantly looking over their shoulders. Rumour and doubt were removed by Middlesex County Council in their recent announcement of plans for a County Apprenticeship Scheme. Disarmingly simple and direct, the plan introduces changes which are scarcely perceptible. Yet if adopted unchanged by further authorities the scheme will open the way to a complete revolution — undoubtedly a desirable revolution — in craft apprenticeship.

Citation

Wellens, J. (1961), "County Apprentice", Education + Training, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 4-7. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014941