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Technical education abroad
WE BRITONS are often charged with being insular in outlook and attitude and nowhere is this charge more justified than in the sphere of technical education.
Principles of Education and Training in Industry
R.G. BellamyThe author, a member of the Industrial Training Council, analyses the essential purposes of education and training in industry and outlines the main features of a policy which…
Invigorating the Teaching of Electrical Power Engineering
G.S. BrosanThis study of certain difficulties affecting the teaching of an important subject includes some interesting suggestions for improving what amounts to that subject's public…
Co‐ordination of Training in a Group Scheme
J.E.C. McCandlishIn describing the scheme the author makes particular reference to two aspects — the benefit which the training staffs of the various member organisations derive from the…
Some Practical Aspects of Modern Language Teaching
P. NewmarkThe author presents some stimulating ideas on teaching modern languages for vocational — not vacational — purposes. In his view subsidiary aims on the part of the student must be…
The Need for Revising Physics Syllabuses
A.W. BadcockThe author examines the reasons why physics is taught in schools and on the basis of his conclusions makes a strong case for the pruning and modernising of school physics…
Progressing Students' Work
Why is it so important that progressing should be an active part of a teacher's work and not merely a passive recording of change? This article by a correspondent provides some…
Brighton College Science Laboratories — some interesting features
W.H. LloydIN OCTOBER LAST YEAR Sir Vivian Fuchs returned to his old school to open the new science building which has since attracted attention because of the new design features…
Policy‐making in Technical Education
Stephen CotgroveTracing many of this country's lasting difficulties in the field of technical education to deficiencies in our policy‐making machinery, the author suggests a possible way of…
PROBLEMS OF APPRENTICESHIP — 3: The Training of Apprentices
T.H. HawkinsContinuing his series, the author queries established views on the nature and structure of apprenticeship, leading on to some thoughts on its modification in length and content…
Visual aids
A regular feature giving news and comment on events and new productions in the field of visual aids for technical and scientific teaching and training
Notes and News: EXPENDITURE ON LIBRARIES
E.R. McColvinEducationalists can take a legitimate pride in our public library system. The aim of the first pioneers of the movement was to provide suitable material to assist in education…
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