Item RSP/7/k/14 - Photograph: Matriculation classes

Photograph showing a young male student, identified as Piritipal Singh Hunja, working at a desk.

Labelled on reverse 'Central Office of Information Photograph. Crown Copyright reserved (See Feature Set Into No.210 The Working Man's University: The First Polytechnic. The demand for evening education in Britain far exceeds facilities. After a full day's work a large proportion of the adult population hurry to evening institutes and polytechnics to learn, at a very low cost, the 'know-how' that modern industry and commerce insists of its workers. More than 11,000 people in the evenings, and 2,500 during the day attend courses for further education at the Regent Street Polytechnic, where the twelve departments and three craft courses are designed almost exclusively for the vocational student who has reached the age of seventeen (there is no maximum age) and has passed Matriculation or an equivalent University entrance examination.'

Separately labelled 'D.47598 (24) Piritipal Singh Hunja is an Indian from Tanganyika, East Africa. He is at the Polytechnic studying for his Matriculation Examination. His parents went to Africa from the Punjab during the first World War'.