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More policy from the Engineering ITB
The Engineering ITB made two important announcements on 1st September. Early in August it had sent out to the 30,000 firms on its register Form S2 — Return of Employment, Numbers…
Notes and news
Most of this Board's senior staff have now been appointed. Mr Alan Swinden became Director in July, Mr Frank Metcalfe is the Chief Education and Training Officer and Mr Mostyn…
The Technical College in a changing environment
JOHN WELLENSThe technical college is a unique institution. Within Britain itself it is unique as an educational instrument; in the world at large the technical college, as it works out in…
The college office
G.F. HIRDThe general office in most technical colleges has two failings. Firstly, and mainly, the number of staff is insufficient to deal with the existing work load, and is certainly far…
The Sevenoaks experiment
‘The normal school metal‐working shop — you know, making perfect cubes by hand — is the great enemy of the engineering profession.’ This is the view of Mr Gerd Sommerhoff of…
The training officer — his role and requirements
V.T. STEVENSONThe significance and functions of the men and women who earn their living in the industrial training field vary considerably. On the one hand, there are those who enjoy manager or…
Critical Path Network Analysis of a course
T.G. WYANTAlthough all teachers prepare a scheme of work which should show a progression through the contents of their particular subject syllabus, one seldom hears of teachers co‐operating…
‘Technicians Today and Tomorrow’
JOHN WELLENSDr Young, who is Principal of Chance Technical College, Smethwick, has written a timely and informative book on one of the great unrecognised problems in the training field at the…
Visual aids
Operation of a Cropping Press (b & w, 12 min, 5s) Poultry Feeding and Egg Collecting (b & w, 14 min, 10s) Cutting Floor Tiles (b & w, 18 min, 10s) Putting Felt on Battens (b & w…
DESIGNED FOR TEACHING: Atomic physics educational apparatus
Dennis S. BeardIt is widely accepted that present‐day secondary school physics courses must include some ‘modern physics’, much of which is concerned with the atom and its structure. But, as J…
Part 2 — The Hilton combustion demonstration unit
M.E. HorsleyThe first part of this article described the unit and suggested likely fields of use. This second and concluding part describes a few simple experiments performed to assess the…
A demonstration water tunnel
Ph.D. R.ThomsonA smoke tunnel for lecture demonstrations was described in the May issue of TECHNICAL EDUCATION. May I put in a plea for demonstration water tunnels? Flow phenomena have been…
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