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One of the most vital of the many factors behind the teaching revolution of the past decade has been the rapid development of programmed learning. It owes its wide acceptance mainly to two accidental and largely unconnected events. By the beginning of the 1960s educational technology (the whole apparatus of audio‐visual aids) had become an integrated part of the equipment of nearly all schools. At the same time, the work of the behaviourist psychologists, and of Professor Skinner in the USA in particular, had taught educationalists a lot about the basic mechanics of the learning processes.

Miss Toulson investigates the employment prospects of epileptics and points out their personal difficulties in finding a job. A strong plea is made for objective and unprejudiced consideration of the epileptic's employ ability, based on specific facts related to the individual case rather than folk fears of the condition.

All production engineering is a daily challenge, but at those factories run by Remploy (a Treasury‐backed, non‐shareholding industrial company, limited by Government guarantee) it combines the usual need for constant problem‐solving, with a demand for the sensitivity and dexterity of a juggler on a tightrope. For some 92 per cent of the Remploy employees are on Section 2 of the Ministry of Labour's Disabled Register (the registered disabled persons in open industry all come under Section 1), and this means that they are technically labelled ‘unemployable’. Remploy, the brain‐child of Ernest Bevin, which was started in 1945, and so celebrates its twenty‐first birthday this year, has proved that label false.

Dr Robert Oxtoby writes: Speaking at a one‐day Conference organized jointly by the Midlands Group of the Society for Research into Higher Education and the South Birmingham Technical College and held at the College in July, Dr Michael Bassey (Nottingham Regional College of Technology) described lecturing as the equivalent of throwing mud at a wall: some never reaches it, some sticks and some sticks but later drops off. Dr Bassey was talking about effective study methods or, in other words, how to ensure that as much mud as possible sticks.

The setting up of a National Council for Further and Higher Education and an increase in expenditure on education were the priority requests made by the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions at their 58th Annual Conference in Birmingham on 26–29 May.