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The victims of a lousy 2‐ft seam
Early this month at Liverpool University the National Union of Students conducted their affairs in a bear‐garden atmosphere more fitting to the Royal Zoological Society than to a…
Glamorgan: a suitable case for treatment?
The area of the South Wales coalfield extends from Monmouthshire in the East to the boundary of Carmarthen in the West. Elements of mining settlement move north over the…
Britannia — blazers and ties
The Britannia School of Mines at Pengam, Monmouthshire, is the central training establishment for the new‐style Eastern area of the Welsh coalfield. Originally founded in 1929 for…
The tale of the bacon slicer
To turn from the high‐powered efficiency and blazer‐and‐tie traditions of the Britannia School of Mines to the tale of Ollie Morgan's bacon slicer is to move from a successful…
‘We have nothing to do with mining here’
So far we have reviewed the local progress and drawbacks which affect training in the South Wales coalfield. In order to determine whether this somewhat gloomy picture has the…
The Men
Having investigated both the NCB training facilities and the local educational provision, we turned our attention to the men. Below we print two extracts from discussions held…
The Bosses
To conclude our survey we discussed our impressions and put the questions that had arisen from them to Lord Robens, chairman of the National Coal Board, and Will Paynter — who is…
Films
The National Coal Board has always recognized the vital part that properly used teaching aids can play in any training programme. In many respects coal mining Is a unique…
It's not the leaving of Liverpool that's grieving me …
Without a daffodil in sight, the spring Council of the National Union of Students assembled from 30 March — 3 April at Liverpool for its equinoctial bloodletting. To Geoffrey…
Comment: Green for go
Benedict ArnoldDespite the ATTI's affiliation to the TUC and the NUT's perceptible move in the same direction, the teachers' worst enemy during the next three months will be Mr George Woodcock…
In parliament
The Secretary of State for Education and Science, Mr Anthony Crosland, made a statement in the Commons about polytechnics.
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- Dr Martin McCracken