FACTORS INFLUENCING ATTITUDES TO TECHNOLOGY IN SCHOOLS.

The article focuses on factors that influences attitudes to technology in schools. A report of the Percy Committee on Higher Technological Education that was issued in 1945 consists issues dealing with national prosperity and education for a technological society. It is reported that in educational institutions, the expansion of places in science and technological faculties was not met by similar increases in the supply of students. Several causes have been advanced for this shortfall. Schools were criticized for not encouraging more of their able pupils to enter professional courses. Technicians have always sought to increase their numbers despite increasing the difficulty of their qualifications. Schools were particularly worried by the criticism that they were not supporting the technological effort in education. Academics in their turn complain that young graduates are given poor jobs and not allowed to make the contributions of which they are capable. In a nutshell, both universities and schools took a poor view of traditional metalwork.