S ummary . Much has been made about the need to train more people to work with the New Technologies though little is known about why such a relatively small number of people actually take up technological training. It seems likely that attitudes towards technology and work will play an important role in people's motivations to train and, as yet, these have received little empirical study. This paper reports findings from a survey of university students' attitudes towards technology and outlines some important relationships between the consistency of past science orientation in examination choices and attitudes. The findings suggest that the content of school examination courses may influence later attitudes to a greater degree than might have been expected particularly in relation to evaluations of the environmental consequences of technological advances.
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Fife‐Schaw et al. (1987) studied this question.