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News: Education & Training under new management
Olive ForsytheStarting next month Education and Training will be published by the Association of Business Executives, a non‐political and non‐profit making organisation set up recently to…
Topics
Sandy RyrieIn recent years the traditional system of craft apprenticeship has been undergoing considerable change. The setting up of the Industrial Training Boards and their growing…
Towards a definition of intelligence
Michael DuaneCharles Darwin tried to demonstrate a continuity of evolution between the infrahuman species and man that obtained not only in anatomy but in behaviour and intelligence. The…
Teaching computer talk
Frederick HarrisonComputers are extemely useful tools but they are only as good as the people who control them. At present they are not realising their commercial and industrial potential because…
Everyman's English
D. CloseThe case for reforming our attitudes to vocational English is not simply an educational one. In part, it is bound up with the broad functions of colleges and the reasonable…
Teachers in practice
John RussellThe basis of any systematic scheme for college staff‐development is regular performance appraisal. Only from an analysis of shortcomings can staff‐development be planned. A senior…
Captains of industry?
George JaffaNo organisation runs effectively and economically (in the broadest sense) without more than a dash of one particularly vital ingredient. Call it what you may in the interests of…
Careers:: TOPICS
Ray HeppellNo sphere of human endeavour is quite so fraught with fashionable catch‐phrases, jargon or gimmickry than that of education, and there are times when the teacher in the classroom…
The Printing Industry
Employers are recognising the need for a wider range of skills than is usual for craft apprentices.
Careers:: RESEARCH
Christine MoorA survey undertaken by the Comparative Research Unit at King's College, London, discovered that only one out of five pupils felt that they had been given a lot of information and…
Careers:: SELECTION
Ruth Lancashire, Roger HoldsworthIn every field of human activity there are significant individual differences in performance. In some jobs, for instance, output can be measured objectively and, although the…
Careers:: AGENCIES
The Royal National Institute for the Blind runs a national placement and advisory service for visually handicapped people
Dead letters
Lyndon JonesA major factor stimulating the development of correspondence education was the elitist conception of higher education which denied higher learning to all but a select few. Hence…
Talking with parents
Further extracts from a recent BBC ‘phone‐in series in which education experts answer parents’ questions.
More for less
Gerry FowlerWhen this piece was written, the annual Public Expenditure White Paper was awaited, as ever, with bated breath in every corner of the land. As few will read it as have read its…
Books
Maureen O'ConnorEducation does not treat its great men particularly well. It is ready enough to grant recognition, but painfully slow to actually implement the ideas which have brought a reformer…
Aids
Tony CrockerTwo new User Specifications have recently been published by the Council for Educational Technology for the United Kingdom (formerly NCET). Prepared by the Working Party on…
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