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THE HURDLE OF THE 18+
THE GREAT race for university entrance is on, too many students chasing too few places. What is to be done about it?
Notes and News
A committee of enquiry to look into the question of stimulating the development of day release from employment of young people under 18 years of age has been set up by the…
M.A. (Retail Distribution)?
T.H. HawkinsTHE AMERICAN lead in retail education was shown only too clearly at a Conference held at Scheveningen, Holland, from 16th–18th May 1962, under the auspices of the Office for…
The LeFevre Training Centre
THE RECENTLY‐OPENED LeFevre Training Centre, at the North Thames Gas Board's Stratford Works, in East London, provides greatly improved facilities for training in the eastern part…
RESEARCH in TECHNICAL EDUCATION: EDUCATION AND OCCUPATION
S.F. CotgroveThese are summaries of the main points made by the principal speakers at the recent Colloquium on Research in Technical Education. The press was excluded from the colloquium…
SELECTION AND ORGANISATION
Ethel C. VenablesWHILE IT is naturally gratifying to see how many workers are now being attracted to this field of research, the range of work reported in this particular section is nevertheless…
TEACHING MACHINES ARE A PROBLEM
Richard GoodmanALTHOUGH SOME attention has been devoted recently to the nature of teaching machines, very little thought has been given to the problems that will be encountered in their…
CONTINENTAL SYSTEMS OF ADULT TRAINING: 1. France and Holland
In the last two issues we have examined the problem of adult training in general in this country and the present degree of active government involvement through the Government…
PRACTICAL WORK IN THE NEW ENGINEERING COURSES
J. LongdenTechnical education might almost be said to be founded on the teaching of practical work. It grew out of the courses provided mainly for artisans in the Mechanics Institutes and…
Writing To Some Purpose
F.E. DriverrTo some extent this section has been anticipated in the other parts of the syllabus. Where writing has been expressly mentioned, or fairly strongly suggested as a natural…
American Language Laboratory Equipment Introduced
A NEW company, Electronic Classrooms Ltd, has been formed to market language laboratory equipment in this country.
OPERATIVE TRAINING: PART 1
JOHN WELLENSOUT OF every three boys who start work under the age of 18, only one enters a trade or craft apprenticeship: considering all school‐leavers, boys and girls together, only one in…
Centenaries, '62
GEORGE KYNOCH MOST PEOPLE know that ‘ICI’ means Imperial Chemical Industries and that this combine embraces many different industries (such as alkalies, explosives, paints…
CRAFTSMEN AND TECHNICIANS IN SPAIN
J.H. McSweenyThe Spaniards make a fine showing at the International Apprentice Competition. They manage to do so pretty consistently for a country which is not in the front rank of technical…
Visual aids
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