P.T.A. Plans for Education in Transport
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UTAKING the youth of Britain more 1Vitransport-minded, and providing better educational facilities which will assist the recruitment of promising personnel to transport, are the aims of plans mentioned by Mr. C. Courtney Cramp, president of the Industrial Transport Association, at a recent meeting of the Association's Leeds branch.
So far as ordinary day schools were concerned, said Mr. Cramp, with a view to the stimulation of interest in this matter, contacts had been made whereby it was hoped to convey, to the teaching profession, at least in a broad way, a fuller conception of the significance of transport.
It was also aimed to secure an extension of transport educational facilities through machinery established to. promote the welfare of Servicemen before and after they left the Forces. For the operation of this machinery, thC Central Advisory Council for Adult Education in the Forces had 23 regional committees. Through these committees it was hoped that there would be widespread provision of courses of instruction in transport subjects at evening continuation schools and technical colleges.
Mr. Cramp recalled that, before the war, the I.T.A.'s London Branch initiated the provision of a series of young people's lectures covering the broad, fundamental principles of transport, and, given by I.T.A. members. The young student paid a fee of only 2s. 6d. for the whole course. He anticipated that, after the war, this scheme would be revived to supplement any other transport education facilities.
In further discussion, the value of the I.T.A. and kindred associations as a field for the recruitment of transport lecturers on behalf of education authorities was stressed.