Education + Training: Volume 21 Issue 5

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Viewpoint: Too big for the net

The penultimate western man, stalled in the ultimate traffic jam and slowly succumbing to carbon monoxide, will not be cheered to hear from the last survivor that the GNP went up…

The feedback classroom — an alternative technology

Paul Ellis

There are few who would not agree that in the classroom situation it is valuable to obtain information on the effectiveness of instruction. By asking questions and noting various…

The European Parliament

Although the EEC already has a Parliament (with Britain represented by 18 Labour, 16 Conservative, 1 Liberal and 1 Scottish National) the first touch of democracy is only now…

Books

Ruth Holdsworth

The modest publication is the Annual Report of the Council for Education Technology, the government‐funded body with a UK remit to promote the application and development of…

Training for counselling

Brigid Proctor, Pat Milner

The Counselling Courses run by South West London College are unusual in several respects, and unique in one respect. As such they may be of interest to trainers in a variety of…

DES News Releases

Gordon Oakes, lately Minister of State, Department of Education & Science, was speaking at the presentation of the national award of the National Examinations Board for…

Careers:: TOPICS

A new guide available free of charge from the Hotel & Catering Industry Training Board helps employers, particularly those without access to personnel specialists, to produce…

Careers:: COURSES

More and more people of all ages and from diverse social backgrounds are discovering a different way of using their leisure time. The activity/study holiday concept is not exactly…

Careers:: TRAINING

Leading representatives of the British food industry were told in London recently that links between the academic world and industry must be strengthened to meet training needs…

Topics

The General Secretary of the NUR was reported as threatening that, in the event of a Conservative victory in the General Election, his members would be instructed to “get their…

Behaviour modification

Lyndon Jones

Pairing involves using two rewards at once: eg, a physical and a verbal. Eventually the less desirable becomes acceptable enough to reward behaviour by itself. For example…

The linking elements concept

Philip Sykes

The most valuable resource of any organisation is its personnel. This is a cliche which would be hardly worth repeating, except for the uncomfortable fact that in many…

Visitors welcome at the Black Country Museum

Dudley has always had a Zoo; now it has a new attraction based on the human, rather than the animal, world.

Cranfield School of Management

Bill Allen OBE

An airfield must seem a strange location for a school of management. The present school arose from the activities of the Cranfield College of Aeronautics which, like the school…

Cover of Education + Training

ISSN:

0040-0912

Online date, start – end:

1959

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Martin McCracken