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Credit 1968 18 1969 16 1970 15 1971 7 Pass CITY AND GUILDS 261 AGRIC FITTER/TECHNICIANS First Class 1963 3 1964 5 1965 3 1966 6* Silver Medal (Gelnar) 1967 2 Distinction 1968 5 11 13 10 4 Second Class 3 4 7 8 14 Fail 9 1 2 Fail Credit Pass Fail 18 1 1969 2 11 2 1970 6 4 1971 4* Silver Medal (Richardson) 1972 I AGR. E MEBERSHIP EXAM 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 Pass 1 6 4 5 7 8 2 2 35 9 3 1 15 [i] Fail 1 1 1 3 1
CHAPTER XVII AGRICULTURAL TRAINING IN WILTSHIRE by J Alexander, Agricultural Training Board Although the Agricultural Training Board was set up in 1966 as a national body under the terms of the 1964 Industrial Training Act, it might be appropriate, before entering into details of the comparatively short history of its activities in the county, to recall the operations of the National Agricultural Apprenticeship scheme. This in many ways preceeded the Board and was, for all practical purposes, taken over by it. The Agricultural Apprenticeship Council's scheme was launched in 1953 -very much along the lines of apprenticeship schemes for other industries. Its funds and resources were extremely limited and at county level. The Council relied almost entirely on voluntary help from public spirited people and the goodwill of the local representatives of N.A.A.S., L..E.A., N.F.U., N.U.A.A.W. and the Youth Employment Service, who were formed into local committees. In Wiltshire, a committee was formed in 1953 under the chairmanship of Mr E F Boulton of Hannington, with Mr W Case of Bowerchalke as Secretary and administered by the then Secretary of the County Wages Committee based in Bath. Shortly afterwards the administration was moved to Trowbridge and thence to N.A.A.S. county offices at Devizes. Mr Boulton and Mr Case continued as Chairman and Secretary alternatively, until the County Apprenticeship Committee's administration was taken over by the A.T.B. in 1968, when Mr Y W York-King of Edington assumed the Chairmanship. The Committee continued until 1971, when it was agreed to hand over its responsibilities to the local Area Training Committee of the Board, as recommended by the Agricultural Apprenticeship Council. In that year, the A.T.B. launched the New Entrant Training Scheme, to supercede the Apprenticeship Scheme, which was wound up. The New Entrant Training Scheme, is in practice, broadly similar to the old Apprenticeship Scheme, as revised in 1961. In 1961 the Agricultural Apprenticeship Council had revised its scheme and introduced a feature, which was to have considerable implications later, namely the taking by apprentices of Proficiency Tests which, if successfully completed, qualified the candidate for a wage premium under the Wages Act. The tests selected were those of the Young Farmers' Movement, to be administered by the local test committees of that organisation. It was hoped that this move would give a greater incentive to young people entering agriculture to undertake more formal training than had been the case, but unfortunately in most counties, including Wiltshire, it did not have the desired effect. Most employers in Wiltshire were paying in excess of the basic rate anyway. Adequate resources to carry out tests at a local level did not exist in the
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History of Agricultural Education i
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Chapter Title & sub sections ORIGIN
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10 CATTLE AND SHEEP by F A Stockwel
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Illustrations The photographs are r
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CHAPTER 1 SUMMARY OF THE HISTORY OF
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1798 Smithfield Club formed in Lond
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1914 -1918 World War I. Tractors be
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When World War II ended, and follow
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Mr Price and his staff were popular
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Mr B Savage Estate Carpenter It is
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appointed full-time Bee Keeping Off
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In 1963, it was decided to set up a
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already a wealth of up-to-date book
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CHAPTER III LACKHAM HOUSE AND ESTAT
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Knight's fee worth 60s. p.a." SIR J
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Lackham, from which it looks like a
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SUMMARY OF THE HISTORY OF LACKHAM E
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"A History of Agricultural Science
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1972 Naish Hill Cottage and paddock
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CHAPTER V COURSES OF STUDY 1970 All
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CHAPTER VI THE COLLEGE FARM 197O Th
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