Education + Training: Volume 8 Issue 6

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Educational apartheid

The state of disunity in Britain's educational system grows apace. Whatever views one might hold on the Crosland binary system, soundings reveal it to be regarded by those working…

Notes and news

The value of the conference on the teaching of engineering design held at Scarborough, 13 – 16 April, was reflected in the support it attracted: 50 colleges of technology and 25…

Promoting innovation — the role of the industrial liaison service

R.V. Arnfield

Furtherance of technological progress is seriously hampered by restricted communication between research establishments and industry. In order to deal with the current…

The Wool Board gets weaving

Kathleen M. Allsop

In her first article on the activities of the Wool ITB, Miss Allsop outlines the progress made so far in an industry less disciplined than the engineering giants. The…

Chemical research in technical colleges

D.F. Ball

In this article, the author gives the results of an analysis into the extent of chemical research in technical colleges. By analysing the origin of papers presented in the leading…

The place of engineering in the sixth‐form curriculum

E. Semper

Mr Semper provides a fascinating picture of the ideas behind the progress of the Schools Council towards provision of engineering in the upper forms of schools. The development of…

Perception and communication

M.L.J. Abercrombie

This article was originally delivered as a lecture at the London Institute of Education. The author gives examples of errors in perception and relates them to the field of…

Education and the working of democracy

Harold Silver

The second of two articles discussing inadequacies in the structure and government of education. The first described the range of implications of the term democracy, and the…

Designed for teaching

M.L. Haselgrove

Practically every school or college now possesses a good 16 mm projector, designed to project silent film or to add sound from optical film track or magnetic stripe. Many such…

Visual aids

The following four films are the first in a series on Fluid Mechanics produced by Professor Hunter Rouse of the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research, State University of Iowa…

In parliament

The Queen's Speech opening the new Parliament, fulfilling its traditional function of foreshadowing the Government's programme of legislative and administrative action, included a…

Cover of Education + Training

ISSN:

0040-0912

Online date, start – end:

1959

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Martin McCracken