History of Agricultural Education in Wiltshire - Lackham Countryside ...

The Pilkington Report – Abstract of the article published by the
Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau (CAB). The abstract is from their
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ABSTRACT
The National Advisory Council on Education for Industry and Commerce
appointed an Advisory Committee on Agricultural Education in 1963 which
was asked to report on " the present provision of, and future requirements
for, full-time further education for agriculture in institutions other than
universities with special reference to courses above the level of one-year
certificate courses". In the introduction it is stated that the technological
revolution which has taken place in agriculture in the past 25 years, current
developments in its business organization and marketing arrangements, and
the requirements of ancillary occupations, all emphasize the need for a
progressive system of agricultural education, accompanied by practical
(industrial) training and integrated with the rest of further education. The
remaining chapters of the report deal with the occupations served,
numerical demand, education and training course organization, special
branches and allied technologies, women, examinations, the institutional
pattern. One of the four appendices is devoted to management education in
agriculture. A. T. S.
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