Table of contents
REPRESENTATION
ELSEWHERE IN this issue the Director of BACIE writes in protest at the leader in our June issue, in which the question of appointments to governmental committees was raised. The…
The Place of Chemistry in the Middle School
J.J.C. McCabeShould Chemistry be studied as an individual subject to ‘O’ level? The author questions the traditional, the practical and the theoretical reasons for teaching the subject at this…
Mobile Training Unit
S.J. RobinsonTHE Iraq Petroleum Company's operations cover a large area of Iraq and include the running of the pipelines to the Mediterranean coast, some 550 miles away.
Suggestion Scheme
D. WilliamsOne of the ideas and methods which technical colleges can usefully borrow from industry is the suggestion scheme. The author, who is now Head of the Science Department at Yeovil…
Training for Selling … Chloride Batteries Ltd.
By all accounts we are approaching an era of hard selling. For this reason industrial companies are beginning to show more interest in sales training — that type of instruction…
Careers Guidance beyond the School
N.W.E. FlandersLast month the author discussed co‐operation between school careers staff and the Youth Employment Service in planning careers guidance. The present article deals with the Youth…
Accent on Safety: — Austin Motor Company
Industrial accident figures hate been in the headlines recently — so have students' complaints at the negligence some colleges and schools show towards safety measures. Austins'…
Centenaries, '61
A. CummingsSamuel Clegg was born in Manchester in 1781 and died in 1861. His inventions are concerned with gas lighting and an extraordinary railway. He was educated partly by Dalton of the…
Pressed Steel's New Training Centre
The opening of Pressed Steel's Training Centre at Cowley by Mr W. Carron, President of the AEU, marks a major step in the Company's plans for the expansion of training facilities.
The Centre Lathe
W.F. WalkerIn our December 1960 issue Mr Walker discussed the functions and equipping of a College machine tool laboratory. He also introduced briefly the subject of the tests and…
English for Craft Students — 6
John LynnWETHER IT is humdrum or exciting, the day‐to‐day life of a craft student can be a rich source of raw material for written and oral work. The teacher who can exploit it will make…
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
Recently introduced: Generalised Electrical Machine Sets for Teaching
Two teaching machines based on Kron's theory of the primitive electrical machine have recently appeared on the market. Gabriel Kron suggested some 25 years ago that all electrical…
Rocket Test Rig
This apparatus for studying the working of the solid‐propellant rocket motor has been specially designed for training use
Notes and News: THE LONG‐TERM DEMAND FOR SCIENTIFIC MANPOWER
By 1965 Britain's total supply of professional scientists and technologists should catch up with demand.
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- Dr Martin McCracken