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EMPLOYERS ON CROWTHER
ON PRESENTING the Crowther Report the Minister invited the expression of views on its proposals. In response to this invitation the Industrial Education and Training Committee of…
Progress Report Number 11: The Battle is Joined
John WellensIn this report, which concludes the series, the author surreys the whole scene and attempts to integrate the separate arguments put forward in previous reports.
The Teaching of Physical Metallurgy — a Rational Approach
G.B. ClarkeIn his inaugural lecture at Imperial College, Professor J. G. Ball pointed to the tendency of metallurgy to become a scientific discipline of logical inference, making teaching…
Apprentice English through Tutorials
M.A.V. MorrisIn this second article about the Yeovil experiment in English, Mr Morris outlines the important part played by tutorials. The excellent response made by the engineering…
Works Schools for External Students—British Oxygen Gases Ltd.
John WellensJohn Wellens describes the aims and scope of this type of school, referring particularly to British Oxygen's Welding School at Cricklewood, London. In the section seen above there…
The Problem of the Unacademic Student
W.J. Cotterell, J.R. SmithEveryone who has taken part in the teaching of craft apprentices has come up against the problem of those students who find the orthodox approach to technical theory very…
Aids to Drawing Reading for Apprentices
A.D. HowarthAs the design of mechanisms, structures and so on increases in complexity, and manufacturing processes become more complicated, the need for set courses on drawing reading as a…
Semi‐Conductors, Conductors and Insulators — some models for teaching the basic principles
A.J. WattsIn even the most lucid literature on semi‐conductors, the complexity of electrons, holes, energy levels, acceptors, donors, and so on tends to swamp any understanding of the basic…
Crowther and Numeracy
A.C. WalshawIn this scientific and technological age it is most important that greater attention be given, particularly in the primary and secondary schools, to methods of teaching…
Visual aids
A regular feature giving news and comments on events and productions in the field of visual aids for technical and scientific teaching and training
Notes and News: ‘Training Boys in Industry — The Non‐Apprentice’
John WellensIn publishing its booklet ‘Training Boys in Industry — The Non‐Apprentice’ on 23rd August, the Industrial Training Council showed itself flexible enough to execute yet another…
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