SCIENCE,THE WORKFORCE AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION*

The change in the organization of work with advancing technology thus has important implications for governments, for educational authorities and for managers and administrators in both private and public sectors of industry. Governments must strive particularly for better means of analysing the structure of the workforce and predicting changes in the need for educated and trained manpower. Educational authorities must learn to interpret information from such analyses and to obtain further Information for detailed forward planning. Managements must learn to make the most of the products of the educational systems (especially the technical and vocational educational systems) and to provide training both within the undertaking and in conjunction with technical institutions. This training (and retraining) must be provided for workers at all levels and for managers at all levels. I shall conclude with a quotation from The Revolution in Education, by M. J. Adler and M. Mayer: Democracy and mechanization of labour are here and they are here together. Whatever their shortcomings in practice they present the human race for the first time in human history with the possibility of the good life for all men and the equitable organization of human society.