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SUPPLY OF TECHNICIANS
ALTHOUGH THE enquiry (summarised in this issue) into the number of technicians employed in the chemical and engineering industries was small — only 400 firms were approached …
County Apprentice
John WellensTwo years have now passed since the appearance of the first hushed rumours that certain Local Education Authorities were preparing to make revolutionary changes in the national…
A Combined Degree : City & Guilds Sandwich Course
W.F. WilliamsFOUR YEARS ago we at this College were considering the possibility of opening a sandwich course. Our reasons for wishing to do this were the usual ones and need not be enlarged on…
The Qualifications and Work of Technicians in 1960
The Ministry of Labour's recent survey of the Employment of Technicians in the Chemical and Engineering Industries provides some very useful information on these important topics…
Background to '56 — Foreground to '61
A. MacLennanThis second part of an article based on a recent study at Huddersfield describes the effects of the 1956 White Paper on the more advanced levels of technical education. Future…
Block Release for Craft Apprentices
A note on the organisation and the College aspect of the scheme described last month from the Works point of view
Some Craft Course Problems
J. HansburyTHhis response has been prompted partly by No. 3 in the series ‘The Teaching of Craft Subjects’ (Vol. 3, No.1, TECHNICAL EDUCATION), partly by the recent White Paper on ‘Better…
DISCUSSION: More on ‘g’ Trouble
G. PallettThis ‘g’ trouble is a widespread symptom of some basic misunderstandings in mechanics. Evidently it troubles the students at the Imperial College, as Mr Francis's article in the…
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE: A Planned Programme
V.T. CromptonBefore leaving the topic of using visual aids as a means of disseminating careers information — particularly in school (TECHNICAL EDUCATION, January 1961) — attention should be…
Craft Theory for Electrical Courses
R.J. HartlesTeaching electrical theory. The understanding of electric circuits and fields, and of the associated electro‐magnetic principles, has always been found to present a considerable…
Introducing Photoelasticity — a simulation of circular and elliptical polarisation
G. Pallett, J.D. GreenwoodThat there are difficulties in introducing the subject of photoelasticity to engineering students is widely recognised. These difficulties are of two kinds — the student with whom…
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
Central Advisory Council. In answer to a question about the future work of the Central Advisory Council for England, Sir David Eccles said: “I am glad to tell the House that…
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