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The notion that Britain was losing its international industrial competitiveness has preoccupied governments since the Second World War. Policymakers have sought to address this over the years, and yet Britain's relative industrial decline has appeared to continue, raising questions about its root causes.
In Search of Technological Excellence analyses the policymaking and policy implementation in the education of engineers and technologists from the 1945 report of the Percy Committee on Higher Technological Education to the conclusion of the Thatcher government's Enterprise in Higher Education Initiative. Using a plethora of previously unpublished sources, this book focuses on the untold story of what the reports of the three key committees in this fifty-year period - Percy (1945), Fielden (1963) and Finniston (1980) - actually achieved in secondary and higher technological education. The core themes of this volume include industrial training and its assessment, the controversy over the structure of industrial sandwich courses, the perceived requirements for qualified specialists (the 'manpower' controversy), curriculum development, creativity and innovation in engineering, engineers as managers, and engineering in schools.
Thought-provoking and comprehensive, In Search of Technological Excellence reflects on perennial problems to help clarify how this history can inform policymaking today and will be of interest to policymakers, practitioners and students in engineering education and public administration.
Contents
1: Higher Technological Education: the Percy Report 1945: Before, and After.
2: The National Council for Technological Awards (NCTA) and the Colleges of Advanced Technology (CATs) 1955-1964.
3: Industrial Training and its Assessment
4: The Sandwich Course Controversy
5: The Manpower Controversy: Demand
6: The Manpower Controversy: Supply and the School Curriculum
7: From Liberal Studies to the Engineer and Society, to Management in the 1960's and 1970's
8: The Evolving Curriculum - Responding to Bosworth
9: The Evolving Curriculum - Responding to Furneaux
10: Creativity and Innovation in Engineering
11: Engineers at work - Responding to Hirst
12: Design and Management
13: The Finniston Report and Other Initiatives
14: Pioneering Research in Engineering and Technology Education
15: Perennial Problems
