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- BFI identifier17729
- Date1949-09 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisINTEREST. A report on further education in Britain. RL.1 Britain today must fight for education and a fuller life. Statistics on school-leavers, percentages going to Universities, apprenticeships or straight to work. Universities in Britain, Oxford, Cambridge, London etc. Subjects studied - Sciences most popular. Teaching methods now include T.V. (310-327). Conditions in Universities, study and leisure conditions. Foreign students especially find accomodation difficult, more Halls of Residence needed. Ghandi (540-545), Nehru (546) and other foreign statesmen who attended British Univer- sities. Ratio of sexes in the Universities. Technical training, more colleges needed. Officer training for armed forces. Arts education increasing. 40% of school-leavers work and attend part-time courses paid for by employers (912 ft). RL.2 Some apprentice trades, printing, hotel trades, hairdressing, police training, bus driver driving bus on a skid pan. What can be done to help 53% who go straight to work with no further training ?. Adult Education - beginning. University settlements, Toynbee Hall, Ruskin College. Workers Educational Association provides part of answer. Women's Institutes also provide courses. Evening courses in Arts and Crafts most popular. Amateur dramatics, painting. Music Class, puppet theatre. But evening classes not very popular with younger people, despite work of Youth Clubs etc. A village building its own village hall. Battle for economic survival can be won by educating the people (868 ft). "The End" (1780 ft). (Shotlist)
- Work historyDocumentary short.
- Subject
- CreditsProduction Company: This Modern Age Ltd.
Producer: Sergei Nolbandov
Associate Producer: J.L. Hodson
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Title
Fight for a Fuller Life (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/3045-A73D-2CF6-1DB7-68D1-ECategory
Non Fiction- Collections
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Work - 17729 - 1949-09 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Non Fiction
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