Learning on ScreenFight for a Fuller Life
Series
- Series Name
- This Modern Age
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 1
- Summary
- BFI synopsis: A report on further education in Britain. Britain today must fight for education and a fuller life. Statistics on school-leavers, percentages going to Universities, apprenticeships or straight to work. Universities in Britain, Oxford, Cambridge, London etc. Subjects studied - Sciences most popular. Teaching methods now include T.V. Conditions in Universities, study and leisure conditions. Foreign students especially find accomodation difficult, more Halls of Residence needed. Ghandi, Nehru and other foreign statesmen who attended British Universities. Ratio of sexes in the Universities. Technical training, more colleges needed. Officer training for armed forces. Arts education increasing. 40% of school-leavers work and attend part-time courses paid for by employers. Some apprentice trades, printing, hotel trades, hairdressing, police training, bus driver driving bus on a skid pan. What can be done to help 53% who go straight to work with no further training? Adult Education - beginning. University settlements, Toynbee Hall, Ruskin College. Workers Educational Association provides part of answer. Women’s Institutes also provide courses. Evening courses in Arts and Crafts most popular. Amateur dramatics, painting. Music Class, puppet theatre. But evening classes not very popular with younger people, despite work of Youth Clubs etc. A village building its own village hall. Battle for economic survival can be won by educating the people.
- Researcher Comments
- Trade shown on 16 August 1949.
- Keywords
- Education and training; Music and dance; Performing arts; Youth
- Written sources
- British Film Institute Databases Used for synopsis
Monthly Film Bulletin Vol.16 No.189 September 1949, p169.
Enticknap, Leo. The Non-Fiction Film in Britain, 1945-1951 unpublished PhD thesis p256.
- Credits:
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- Producer
- James Lansdale Hodson
- Producer
- Sergei Nolbandov
- Production Co.
- This Modern Age, Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 1780
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