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Viewpoint: After ONC/D and HNC/D — a case of splitting heirs
It is more than a polite euphemism to say that there is some confusion between the Dip HE and the higher awards which the Business and Technician Education Councils have announced…
And they call themselves teachers!
H.H. TomlinsonLong before the Prime Minister's speech in Cardiff last October industry had been complaining that many school‐leavers applying for jobs could scarcely write their own language in…
Speaking upwards
Lyndon JonesIBM, one of the best‐managed organisations in the world, has pioneered a very useful technique called Speak Up! Basically, Speak Up! is designed both to improve upward…
Working with science: the Nuffield project
Ken Wild, John GilbertThe Second Sixth Form Working Party of the Schools Council showed, in Working Paper 45 16 – 19: Growth and Response, that as many as 25 per cent of students entering the sixth…
Wanted — an integrated plan of student priorities
Gerry FowlerEducation should meet the needs of productive industry. Education is concerned with the development of the whole man, not with fitting him for a particular role in life. Education…
English as she is written — 5. Idioms
Edgar BakerA great deal of English is made up of set phrases welded together like building blocks. We learn them by heart and use them unaltered. Idioms are frozen units of language that…
Journalism
Ralph AllmanTo many young people seeking what path to follow after leaving school or college, the phrase ‘a career in journalism’ has a rich relish about it. It can conjure up visions of…
Careers:: TRAINING
A paper explaining the criteria by the Department of Education & Science in considering the restructuring of the teacher training system during the present period of contraction…
Careers:: COURSES
Sheffield City Polytechnic starts its new three‐year part‐time day‐release MSc course in Education Management in September. The course has a triple focus of policy formulation…
topics
Sir Harold Wilson has accepted an invitation from the Open University Students Association to give the Fourth OUSA Lecture to be held at the University of York on 1 April, the…
Books
Catherine AventThe Society for Research into Higher Education can generally be relied upon to produce interesting reports and monographs. To most people, methods of assessing the postgraduate…
Time to give secondary education a sense of vocation
S.G.C. StokerThe appearance of the Yellow Book on Education which formed the basis of the Prime Minister's speech at Ruskin College in October 1976 has revitalised the debate on the nature of…
The case for monotechnics in business studies
Lyndon Jones1976, the bicentennial year of the publication of Adam Smith's famous book, sent many persons profitably delving into The Wealth of Nations, for much of what he wrote is still…
Industrial relations in a changing world
Oliver ClarkeIn the short space of this article I can do no more than paint, with a broad brush, an impressionistic picture of the development of employment relations, confining myself to the…
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