For many years, British scientific and technical education has been regarded as
inadequate and poor in comparison to competing countries. The deficiencies of
the British education system and its failure to support and promote vocational
education and training to create "human capital" in the labor force have been
seen as a large factor in Britain's economic decline since the 1870s. Michael
Sanderson examines education's supposed part--or not--in this decline and
focuses on those issues where education has been seen to fail the needs of the
economy.