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The Percy Committee’s terms of reference were as follows:
Having regard to the requirements of industry to consider the needs of higher technological education in England and Wales and the respective contributions to be made thereto by universities and technical colleges; and to make recommendations, among other things, as to the means for maintaining appropriate collaboration between universities and technical colleges in this field.
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NACEIC: The Future Development of Higher Technological Education, HMSO, 1950.
See also: Higher Technological Education: Statement of Government Policy, HMSO, 1951; P. F. R. Venables: Technical Education, London, 1955, especially Chapter XV.
The statistical data can be found in the annual Ministry of Education Statistics of Education, HMSO. See also M. Argles: South Kensington to Robbins, London, 1964, Chapter 7.
P. F. R. Venables: Technical Education, London, 1955, p. 447.
See G. L. Price, ‘Professional tension in science and technology: the case of the Colleges of Advanced Technology’, R. and D. Management, Vol. 9, No. 2, February 1979, pp. 78–79.
For a different perspective see T. Burgess and J. Pratt: Policy and Practice: the Colleges of Advanced Technology, London, 1970.
P. F. R. Venables: ‘From Technical School to Technological University’, Chapter 1, Higher Education Development: the Technological Universities, London, 1978, p. 21.
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Stewart, W.A.C. (1989). Technical and Technological Education, 1945–59. In: Higher Education in Postwar Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07064-0_7
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