Although, as already indicated in Section 3, there is widespread concern about the motivation and calibre of the students available for admission to colleges of education, equally widespread and frequently mentioned is concern about the quality of many of the staff of those colleges. The implication throughout is that far more would be achieved, even with students of apparently dubious quality, if tutors generally were more highly qualified, more experienced, more numerous in proportion to the student body and, most specifically, trained for their task.