The environment and technical education in the united kingdom

Summary In showing that substantially more than three-quarters of the population of England and Wales at some stage in their career receive education or training in the further education sector, the author advocates the case for environmental education to be extensively developed at this educational level. An expanded programme in technical and allied colleges should contain elements of environmental education for nearly all technicians as well as specialist full-time training schemes for persons such as environmental monitoring technicians.Dr John F. Potter has been Hon. Secretary of the Institution of Environmental Sciences (UK) over the last five years. He is Editor of that Institution's News Sheet and Proceedings as well as being one of the General Editors of the IES/Wiley Environment Monograph Series. Trained as a geologist at the Universities of Manchester and London, he is currently Principal of Farnborough College of Technology, Hampshire, UK, where he has overall responsibility for a large number of educational programmes, many of which are concerned with the development of skills required by technicians and technologists.