Postgraduate education and training and the universities

At the present time many factors are causing Universities and Colleges to revise their attitudes to post-graduate work. Many of the conventional one-year M.Sc. courses receive insufficient numbers of applicants to make them viable and still less do they excite the support of the Industries which their products will eventually serve. Drawing support from the facts and opinions expressed in a number of Government reports. Industry has attacked these courses strongly and is even more sceptical about the virtues of traditional University Ph.D. schemes. An attempt is made in this paper to survey the present position in regard to postgraduate activity in the Universities and, in the light of the above observations, to outline paths along which future developments might proceed.