THE study group set up by the Industrial Research and Education Committees of the Federation of British Industries including Sir William Larke as chairman, with Sir Percy Dunsheath, K. R. Evans, F.H. Perkins and Dr. B. J. A. Bard (secretary), in it reports on the education and training of technologists, offers a useful contribution to the discussion of higher technological education. It does not, indeed, indicate a solution of the problem of qualifications in technology which the Percy Committee frankly avoided ; and on the relationship between the universities and technical colleges, although it notes what was emphasized in the Nuffield College report last year, the question of distribution or balance is virtually ignored. The Committee, in fact, appears to accept rather too easily the view that technology is properly studied in the universities at both graduate and undergraduate level, and has scarcely paused to ask whether it is possible that expansion of the technical colleges and an improved status there might relieve the present acute pressure on the universities.