Citation
(2008), "Home news", Education + Training, Vol. 50 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/et.2008.00450aab.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2008, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Home news
Bristol
Following consultations with the Ministry of Education, recognition of Bristol College of Technology as a CAT now seems probable in September 1961. The appointment of Mr G.H. Moore, the present principal, as principal-designate of the CAT has been approved by Bristol Education Committee.
Glasgow
Work should be starting towards the end of this year on £1.25 million extensions to the Royal College of Science and Technology. Chemistry and chemical technology will have new buildings and accommodation for engineering is to be extended.
Bradford
The Hives Council – the National Council for Technological Awards – visited Bradford Institute of Technology in January for two days. Members met local industrialists to discuss liaison between industry and the Institute. New equipment costing some £100,000 is included in the Institute’s estimates for the year.
Nottingham
A total of 200 secondary school teachers, many of whom have had no experience at all of industry, have now visited some six firms apiece under the scheme recently begun by the Secondary Education Subcommittee. The scheme is designed to improve cooperation and understanding between teachers and industry and, as the new links become stronger, to help minimise the violent break when a boy or girl leaves school.
Chelmsford
Crompton Parkinson opened their recent one-week residential course – previously restricted to public school boys – to boys from local grammar and technical schools. The object of the course was to reduce the gap between education and industry.
Edinburgh
Proposals for better advisory and consultative machinery for Scottish technical education are under consideration. They include the setting up of a small national consultative committee to advise the Secretary of State on development policy for technical and commercial education, and the taking over by the committee of arrangements for the work of the present five regional advisory councils, whose terms of office expire shortly.
Oxford
The total number of students at Oxford College of Technology is expected to exceed that of the University within the next two or three years. By 1961 over 9,000 will be at the college including evening, part-time day and full-time students. At present there are over 500 full-time students at the college, which will be soon admitting its first residential students.