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Notes and news: Eight gold, five silver…
The British team's performance in the International Apprentice Competition this year is the best yet for this country: eight gold medals, five silver, and two bronze beats…
New examination techniques in Mathematics
W. FARMERAll over the country regional panels of practising teachers are discussing the content of syllabuses and techniques of examining for the many subjects covered by the new…
The Training Act: what the Colleges want to know
Having at one stroke accomplished the biggest revolution in industrial training since the time of the first Elizabeth, the Ministry of Labour is now busy assuring everyone that…
In Parliament
Before Parliament adjourned for the Summer Recess, the Minister of Labour, Mr Joseph Godber, announced in a written answer that, in order to clarify the present position and widen…
The linking of Technical College courses with industrial training
JOHN WELLENSThe most significant fact about all job training, certainly in Britain, is that we have adopted without any serious conflict a convention which separates instruction into two…
Unified electrical machine theory in National Certificate courses
L.F. DORWARD, D.V. KULKARNIDuring the last few years the teaching of electrical machinery has been increasingly influenced by the unified theory proposed by Gabriel Kron. This theory has been the subject…
Education as a liberal study
KENNETH CHARLTONThe discussion about the relative merits of a specialist or non‐specialist education, whether at school or at university, is no new one, though to read some of the contributions…
Technical College libraries: 2 Tuition in library use
J. COWLEYMost of the 1,800 students attending Mid‐Herts College fall into the 16–21 age group. The full‐time students attend commercial, science, engineering, or arts courses leading to…
A lecture theatre and photographic darkroom
R.S.J. PALMERMaking a lecture theatre out of an ordinary lecture room is perhaps a sufficiently unusual venture to warrant passing on my experience — especially as there seems to be a lack of…
Third angle projection
R.S. RHODESAn excellent perspex model to illustrate Third Angle projection was featured in one of the earliest issues of technical education. At that time a home‐made fixed model of mine…
Visual aids
Another industrialised system of building is described in 12 M Jespersen (col, 17 min). John Laing Construction Limited have added this to their series of films describing the…
Technical education since 1851
John WellensSouth Kensington to Robbins. M. Argles 178 pp Longmans 21s The content of this book is accurately described by its sub‐title, An Account of English Technical and Scientific…
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