TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN BRITAIN OF THE 19 <sup>TH</sup> CENTURY: FROM APPRENTICESHIPS TO TECHNICAL SCHOOLS
The paper provides a retrospective analysis which encompasses the formation and development of British technical education starting with the 18 <sup>th</sup>-century workshops and finishing with the late 19 <sup>th</sup>-century technical schools. The analysis of literary memoirs provides illustration of brutal exploitation of child laborers as a negative side of the 19 <sup>th</sup>-century apprenticeship. The paper describes the implementation of an idea of introducing technical and labor education into curricula of primary and secondary schools, which was suggested by a British chemist G.Roskoe and a well-known politician A.Acland. The paper presents recommendations of two advanced committees on technical education headed by B.Samuelson and F.Mangus, and used by a conservative government led by R.Salisbury, a pioneer of education law, which was designed to promote state technical education system.