Learning Resources Centres in Training Colleges.

Just as in the 1960s there was in Britain's training colleges (now called Colleges of Education) an energetic push towards the establishment and subsequent evolution of closed-circuit television as an educational aid so now in the 1970s the emphasis will be seen to be on the concept of the learning resources centre. It is, by the way, interesting to see how many of the colleges which pioneered closed-circuit television are once again in the vanguard of the development: Coventry, Bede, St Mary's, Berkshire, Chorley and Avery Hill to name only a few. Of course the trend is partly a reflection of several years of school-based curriculum development—Schools Council and Nuffield projects for example—and in the higher education field the impetus of new thinking emanating from the National Council for Educational Technology. The colleges whose business it is to train teachers for the schools can hardly fail to ignore the one or deny the other.