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PUBLIC RELATIONS
Builders are said to be notorious for the way they neglect their own property. However, true this may be, few would deny that although the prime purpose of the technical college…
Education and Training in UKAEA's Production Group
H. ArthurTHE ATOMIC energy industry is of recent origin and has many problems peculiar to itself. It uses new processes and techniques and is evolving rapidly. In these conditions the…
All‐Change at ‘A’‐level
John WellensIN A COMPACT report of 17 pages the Council has presented an exhaustive, though eminently readable, study of the problems that attend the ‘A’‐level examinations. While all its…
And in Africa?
John W. GailerIn this conclusion to his article, Mr Gailer pays particular attention to the work of the Kampala Technical Institute, and discusses some of the main problems of technical…
A Field Review of ‘O’‐level Chemistry Textbooks: — 2. Errors and Omissions
Michael BasseyIn the first part of this field review, twenty textbooks used for teaching ‘O’‐level Chemistry were analysed in broad terms. In this article various aspects of these books are…
Training Week — with a punch in it
Commonwealth Technical Training Week will focus the spotlight of publicity on an area of our national life which is largely unaccustomed to it. Our correspondent hopes that…
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE: The Value of Industrial Visits
Two main aspects of careers work are dealt with by V. T. Crompton this month: how to extract the maximum value from industrial visits for vocational guidance purposes, and how…
TEACHING METHOD: The Teaching of Craft Subjects
No. 3 — Workshop Technology and Workshop Practice To stimulate and guide the students' interest is half the battle in teaching workshop technology: to lecture on it from textbook…
Engineering Course at High Pavement School, Nottingham
This experimental grammar school engineering course is to continue, writes our correspondent, though the Institution of Mechanical Engineers has decided not to renew the helpful…
Electrical Laboratory Work — one third of the time
B.F. GrayLABORATORY WORK in most technical colleges, at least in the engineering departments, is often regarded as an onerous task — at times by the staff as well as the students…
The Machine‐Tool Laboratory — 2
W.F. WalkerTHERE ARE TWO tasks which can be set for each type of machine in the laboratory or workshop, and these are the compiling of acceptance charts and machine capacity charts.
Visual aids
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Notes and News
Geoffrey CrowtherOn relinquishing the chairmanship of the Central Advisory Council Sir Geoffrey Crowther received the following letter from the Minister of Education:
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