Who Cares About the Craft Apprentice? A report of a study of the attitudes to further education of 2,000 Scottish craft apprentices

Abstract

The recent publication by the Scottish Council for Research in Education of ";A Day Off Work?";, concentrates on a description of the attitudes towards further education of some 2000 craft apprentices in Central Scotland. The data was collected during 1968 and 1969 by means of questionnaire, interview and attitude scale and in this article a brief summary will be given mainly in terms of each category of student rather than each source of data. The categories of students involved can be considered in terms of the craft course attended or the mode of attendance. Respondents were drawn from the City and Guilds Craft courses in Catering, Electrical Installation Work, Mechanical Engineering, Fabrication Engineering and Carpentry and Joinery, and over 200 of these followed full-time or block release courses during the investigation.