Technical Education, the Performance of South Wales Industrialists and the Haldane Commission

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Title: Technical Education, the Performance of South Wales Industrialists and the Haldane Commission
Language: English
Authors: Roderick, Gordon
Source: Journal of Educational Administration and History. Aug 2007 39(2):193-208.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 16
Publication Date: 2007
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technical Education, Industrialization, Higher Education, Committees, Educational History, Mining, Entrepreneurship
Geographic Terms: United Kingdom (Wales)
DOI: 10.1080/00220620701352238
ISSN: 0022-0620
Abstract: The article begins with a brief introduction to the development of Welsh society and industry between 1870 and 1914. This is followed by a review of Welsh education, especially technical education, in that period, highlighting its backwardness and the factors accounting for that backwardness. The report of the Haldane Commission is then examined against a background of a brief statement of the "revisionist" case. Against the British Retardation theory, the performance of south Wales' industrialists is assessed. This reveals that in contradiction to the "revisionist" view that British industrialists did as well as could have been expected, such was not the case in south Wales. (Contains 33 notes.)
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2008
Accession Number: EJ814699
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:The article begins with a brief introduction to the development of Welsh society and industry between 1870 and 1914. This is followed by a review of Welsh education, especially technical education, in that period, highlighting its backwardness and the factors accounting for that backwardness. The report of the Haldane Commission is then examined against a background of a brief statement of the "revisionist" case. Against the British Retardation theory, the performance of south Wales' industrialists is assessed. This reveals that in contradiction to the "revisionist" view that British industrialists did as well as could have been expected, such was not the case in south Wales. (Contains 33 notes.)
ISSN:0022-0620
DOI:10.1080/00220620701352238