From the archives: Adult education in Scotland

OVER a hundred delegates attended a week-end Conference at Dunblane of the Scottish Committee of the British Institute of Adult Education, presided over by Principal RS Rait, LLD, and opened by Mr Joseph Westwood, MP, Under Secretary of State for Scotland. Mr Westwood, in his address, regretted that in the direction of adult education we had lagged far behind England, both as to the inauguration of schemes for its development, and the numbers taking advantage of the new advance. The latest development of adult education was the forming of wireless listening groups in connection with the wireless talks given by the BBC. The Fife Education Authority had taken that up pretty extensively. It was probable that facilities for attending ordinary graduation courses inside the University itself existed so freely in Scotland that the need for extension work was little felt.

• archive.scotsman.com