JOHN Syvret and his team at Cammell Lairds are now working hard to reform technical education on Wirral.
They are is leading a consortium, backed by other employers, Mersey Maritime Group, the Universities, Wirral Council and educationalists, that is bidding to establish for a new University Technical College.
The Germans began serious technical education in schools well before the 20th century. And despite the 1944 Butler Act, well over half a century later, technical education never...