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BETTER OPPORTUNITIES
The new White Paper, ‘Better Opportunities in Technical Education’, was published early in January. It contains no surprises, in fact as a compromise between what the…
Block Release for Craft Apprentices
An introductory note on the scheme at the Croydon Works of Philips Electrical Limited
Background to '56 — Foreground to '61
A. MacLennanMany people are not only bewildered by the complexity of technical education, but unaware of its aims and total significance. This is unfortunate — particularly if they are…
The Diderot Encyclopedia of Science
A.D. CummingsA newly‐published edition covering manufacturing and the technical arts selected from Diderot's ‘L'Encyclopedie’ (Edited by C. C. Gillispie, Dover Books, Constable & Co Ltd, in…
The Effective Integration of Sandwich Courses
J. FinniganArc the College and Industrial parts of sandwich courses really integrated? The author thinks not, and suggests some remedies
The Teaching of Craft Subjects: No. 4 — Drawing, Calculations and English
This concluding article brings out clearly the harmful influence that outmoded or otherwise inappropriate teaching methods can have, and the vital need to keep methods up to date…
Staff Conference
‘What are technical college teachers trying to do?’ ‘What does industry expect from the technical colleges?’ — these were two of the many subjects discussed at a residential…
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE: The Six‐Point Plan
V.T. CromptonTHE ‘Six Point Plan’ referred to in the last article needs to be well and firmly introduced before industrial visits are begun, if any material benefit is to be forthcoming from…
Geometric Similarity — Some Applications in Fluid Mechanics
G. PallettFluid mechanics is essentially an experimental subject, and similarity laws in one form or another are its natural background. Various types of similarity are possible: in the…
‘g’ trouble
J.R.D. FrancisDR WALSHAW'S article on “Crowther and Numeracy” in the October 1960 issue ends by pointing out the difficulty of many engineering students in handling the gravitational…
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: NEED FOR NEW TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Sir John Cockcroft's views “Britain needs a major new technological university of at least 5,000 students if it is to catch up with America and Russia in producing technologists”…
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