After reviewing the postwar development of British policy on technical education, this essay cites research implying that technical students' abilities differ from university students' chiefly in verbal skills, and contends that the abilities actually needed for technical occupations may be largely unrecognized and undervalued by teachers and…

Attempts to identify the roles of two British laws, the Race Relations Act of 1976 and the Children Act of 1989, in getting rid of racism in children's lives. Britain is the only European country to have comprehensive legislation about racial discrimination, but mere passive acknowledgment has little effect. (SLD)

In Britian, national library planning does not attempt to provide a detailed central plan for all library development; rather it focuses on a limited range of crucial issues: the provision of appropriate legislative, institutional, and financial structures for broad library service. The Public Libraries and Museums Act of 1964 charged both…