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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.)

Discusses the Aberdare Committee created to remedy shortcomings arising from a non-intervention policy in Welsh secondary education, eminating from the 1881 Report of the Committee on Intermedicate and Higher Education (Wales). Focuses on three commissions: the Caredon, Taunton, and Devonshire. Discusses the committee outcomes regarding English and Welsh education system comparisons. (KDR)

Examines educational backgrounds of 253 industrialists, managers, engineers, and scientists either born or employed in South Wales between 1770 and 1914. Finds limited levels of education, especially in science and technical fields. Traces these industrialists' and scientists' efforts to promote education, highlighting work schools that were attached to industrial enterprises. (CH)

Discusses the continuing education program at the University of Oklahoma as a basis for comparison with Great Britain. Topics include funding, appropriate teaching approaches, types of staffing, competition with junior and community colleges, business and industry involvement, and attitude of the public. (CT)

Changes in the demand for entry to university education by mature students in the period 1974-80 are examined in terms of numbers of applications, subject choice, and chance of success in application. It concludes that mature applicants have not been as successful in obtaining university places as have conventional students. (Author/MLW)

This paper uses UCCA statistics to examine changes in the demand for entry to university education by mature students in the period 1974-80, in terms of numbers of applications, subject choice and chance of success in application. It concludes that mature applicants have not generally been as successful in obtaining university places as have conventional students, and that, although the number of mature applicants has increased every year, the proportion obtaining places has decreased. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

1 The data presented are based on UCCA Annual Reports and Statistical Supplements; the results of a DES‐funded research project at the University of Sheffield, ‘Mature Students in Further and Higher Education in Sheffield’, and information kindly supplied by university registrars. ‘Mature Student’ refers to a person who was 21 years of age or older when he/she commenced the first year of a degree course. Home fee students only are covered. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the middle-class non-vocational lecture and debating subjects in the 19th-century England. Throughout the nineteenth century in England the lecture and debate provided a public focus for social activity. Although in most clubs, societies and institutions the lecture suffered a decline in popularity during the second half of the century it was far from eclipsed. Despite debating never achieving the widespread appeal of the lecture its popularity was impressive with a number of societies such as the Philomathic in Liverpool which was devoted solely to it as a technique in adult education. However, in many of the institutions of the nineteenth century the debate was seen as a supplement to the lecture. It was exceptional for a society to be created just for the purpose of debate. It usually required a town of the size of Liverpool to support such specialization. The article deals with the fashions in lecture and debating subjects which are to be found nationally. Certain subjects were popular throughout the nineteenth century. Notables amongst these were geology and natural history.