Abstract
This chapter discusses higher education in England and its needs. The Education Act, 1944 was concerned with the continued universalization of education at secondary level and by-passed the problem of the public schools. Thus, the three sectors of which higher education is composed are the universities, higher technological education, and the education and training of teachers. Within the new unified structure of higher education, there are three types of courses coming together. One is the university type that has traditionally taken the form of three or four years of full-time study of subjects, which, save in specifically professional fields—such as medicine and engineering—are of only generalized vocational significance; the second is the technical college type, closely linked with a defined occupation and narrowly vocational in content and purpose; and the third is the teacher training course, full-time, predominantly residential and a mixture of general liberal education and highly functional training.
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