AT the annual conference of the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions, held in London during Whitsuntide, Mr. J. C. Hazelip of the Leeds College of Commerce was inducted as president of the Association. It is some fifteen years since a teacher of commerce was elected to the office. In his presidential address Mr. Hazelip referred to the, additional work undertaken by technical colleges during the War. It includes training of R.A.F. and Royal Navy personnel in radio work and of the R.A.O.C. and the R.E.M.E. for the many maintenance jobs which a mechanical army needs in the field. There is also the training of members of the A.T.S. for clerical and other work. Mr. Hazelip stressed the importance of this contribution by the technical colleges to the national war effort “since success in modern warfare is largely a matter of being in possession of the necessary equipment and of the technical skill to keep it in working order”. Thus, he said, the work of technical education is an important factor in bringing the present struggle to a successful issue. He stressed. too, the fact that this additional work had gone on “without interference with normal technical college activities”. With the possibilities of an Education Bill in mind Mr. Hazelip sketched arguments against merging junior technical and commercial schools into a “multilateral school”. Technical education, he said, must be conducted in an atmosphere of realism and must be able to call upon the services of men and women who themselves had experienced the difficulties and problems “inherent in the spheres for which the students are being prepared educationally”. Technical education must be dovetailed into the industrial and commercial life of the community round it. This realistic atmosphere, he said, could not be found in the normal secondary school. He insisted, however, that notwithstanding the realism of its approach, the junior technical school in its work in English subjects, science and foreign languages, would stand comparison with any similar work now being carried on in any other type of post-primary school.