Education + Training: Volume 12 Issue 6

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Education in Wales Addysg yng Nghymru

In English mythology, the Welsh abound in teachers, preachers, clerks, and Mid‐Welsh dairymen. Simple folklore defines the Welsh character as secretive, shifty, and utterly…

Black grass Glaswellt du

Whatever debt the English may owe historically to the Welsh, and whatever the statistics, nowhere is it more obvious than in Glamorgan that the excellence of Welsh education rests…

Schools and colleges Ysgolion a cholegau

Bettws Junior School, in new buildings since October last, is open‐plan, free in activity, and below the surface very finely structured. The 245 children on role come from…

More sheep than people Mwy o ddefaid na phobl

Cardiganshire, along with the other 70 per cent Welsh speaking counties (Anglesey, Merioneth, and Caernarvon), has a tremendous responsibility in terms of preserving the national…

Schools and colleges Ysgolion a cholegau

Cardiganshire is relatively poor in public spending funds: there are so few people to tax and no hidden assets outside the tourist industry. But it would not be Wales if education…

Distributive training

Kenneth Lawrence

What does selling groceries have in common with dealing in antiques, or mail order in common with selling oriental carpets? How similar are the training needs of the shop on the…

The Training Page

Valerie Holman

I handed out the shopping cards to my pupils. ‘Can I have a hard one, Miss?’ ‘I'm going to be the awkward customer, Miss.’ ‘Can I be cashier, Miss?’ They got up from their chairs…

Starting up in: CCTV — 3

David McClelland

The May article in this series described a CCTV system in which a single TV camera fed video, (picture), and synchronizing signals to one or more monitors.

Focus

Brian MacArthur

As the official celebrations of the centenary of the state education system opened on 1 May, a disquieting warning that Secondary Education for All was still far from a reality…

Comment

Gordon Bennett

The Department of Education and Science, with a nice sense of timing two weeks before the ATTI conference, has published yet another statement of contempt for the technical…

Cover of Education + Training

ISSN:

0040-0912

Online date, start – end:

1959

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Martin McCracken