Education + Training: Volume 15 Issue 4

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news: ‘Double adult education’—Russell

‘We see no need to propose drastic alterations. The basic machinery is there. But drastic action is now needed to enable the machinery to work comprehensively and to establish…

Topics

The general feeling about the new technician education council set up last month is that it will be an extremely important body. But no‐one is yet prepared to say exactly how and…

Who are the masters now?

Stanley Hewitt

The in‐service bandwagon is well on its way. But who is to be responsible for seeing that a good idea is actually put into practice?

The second tongue

Alison Dunn

A class clamouring for more English exercises, more homework and reluctant to admit their college life could ever come to an end. It's not a situation many teachers would…

Interview

This month the NUS elected a new President. Digby Jacks has been in charge for the past two years. Here he is interviewed by Peter Wilby.

Careers Supplement: Mixed reaction to Employment and Training Bill

Last month saw two major developments for the future of the Careers Service. An all‐party Expenditure Committee published their views on the Youth Employment Service and almost…

Careers: Events

Report on the debate on the second reading of the government's Employment and Training Bill

Careers: Events

On the Youth Employment Service recommends that LEAs should have control of young people until the age of 21

Careers:: TOPICS

Reaction from the Institute of Careers Officers on the White Paper and the Expenditure Committee Report

Food

A survey of the opportunities and obstacles to careers for school leavers in the food industry

Careers:: TRAINING

Jeff Engel

While Edge Hill College provides an annual residential course for those who can spare a week of their Christmas holiday, its chief contribution to in‐service training has been the…

Careers:: TRENDS

Geoffrey Ford

Any one specialist trade is dependent upon the success or failure of another in the food industry.

Careers:: AGENCIES

Co‐operation between Psychologists and Careers teachers is essential argues Phyllis Lines of the Institute of Child Phychology

The same but different

Gerry Fowler

I have recently given thought in this column to two apparently unrelated topics — the Government's White Paper, and the possibility of devising a system for the international…

Organised chaos

Maureen O'Connor

As Jo Grimond, of all unlikely people, pointed out recently, it is a great pity that after a flowering of British art in all sorts of fields, from painting and sculpture to…

Aids

Anna Sproule, Tony Crocker

Overhead Films move; the transparencies on your overhead projector screen don't. Or didn't. From now on, though, colleges and schools can start buying in OHP transparencies that…

Courses

An imaginative new course to launch ambitious school leavers on a career in retailing is being mounted at South Devon Technical College. The venue is significant for the south…

Snippets

What do they get up to at Coombe Lodge, the FE staff college in the depths of Somerset? There've always been rumours of minds turning peculiar in the rustic isolation, not to…

Cover of Education + Training

ISSN:

0040-0912

Online date, start – end:

1959

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Martin McCracken