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Throwback
On 21 February the ILEA will debate (or, by the time we are at press, will have debated) the present proposals for comprehensive reorganization in the city. Their conclusions will…
Newscastle
With a population of 254 000, Newcastle cannot be said to be the largest education authority in the country or the largest city. However, it is the largest in the North East and…
The Primary Schools: The sausage is a cunning bird With feathers long and wavy; It swims about the frying pan And makes its nest in gravy
Newcastle's Primary School children, some 24 000 of them, attend 96 different primary schools, giving an average of 250 pupils per school. In common with the primary sector in…
The Secondary Schools: Re‐organization
All schools in the secondary sector of Newcastle's educational provision have now been reorganized, apart from the six Roman Catholic secondary moderns and one Roman Catholic…
Maple Terrace
The non‐polytechnic part of Newcastle's further education sector is to be centred on a site abutting the Charles Trevelyan Technical College, a new building (1964) with a 1967…
Newcastle Polytechnic: BINARY
By far the most far‐reaching development in Newcastle's total educational provision has been the designation of three of its further education colleges as a polytechnic. This has…
CONCLUSION
The one person perhaps most conscious of the particular difficulties of Newcastle's school leavers is Miss B. G. Calderwood, the city's youth employment officer. The Youth…
The Cuts
Tyrrell BurgessThat there is no defence for the educational cuts announced in January is evident from what Ministers say about them. Education must be cut because every sector of Government…
A part‐time day release course lor industrial instructors
J.W. MansellThis is boom time for industrial instructors. The various recommendations now coming from the industrial training boards are all calling for instructors. Formal training…
The one‐year integrated course in engineering
H. SpenceWhen the one year ‘off‐the‐job’ integrated course for first‐year engineering apprentices was established, it was hoped that every effort would be made to see that wherever it was…
COMMENT
Gordon BennettThe Engineering Industries Training Board has at least one claim to distinction: it is the first body I have known to produce a form which you cannot fill in unless you have…
Focus
Brian MacArthurA monthly column in which Brian MacArthur, Education Correspondents of The Times, reviews the month's news in education.
IN PARLIAMENT
In the course of the Commons debate on manpower training for industry, the Minister of Labour, Mr Ray Gunter, said that in the three and a half years since the first training…
Films
Chris EdmondsIn what role does a sponsor cast his film when the subject is fundamental research? Usually development problems are skimmed over, and the story concentrates mainly on a product's…
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