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SELECTION FOR TECHNICAL COLLEGE COURSES
At the present time a great deal of attention is being paid to the problem of finding and training teachers for technical colleges. This is indeed an urgent and important problem…
Liberal Studies
A. MacLennanThis is more than a survey and evaluation of views on liberal studies, the author goes deeper, into the difficulties of the teachers concerned — all teachers. He examines the…
PROBLEMS OF APPRENTICESHIP — 4: The Training of Apprentices
T.H. HawkinsThis article, which completes Mr Hawkins's part of of the series on apprenticeship and its problems, raises some further important issues for industry and education — and for the…
Pre‐Apprenticeship Courses
F. MetcalfeThe writer describes experience gained at Ipswich in the development of these potentially very important courses.
Planning a Course for the Grammar School Technologist
W.G. MerrimanContinuing the series on technical subjects in secondary schools, the writer describes a course now starting in his school, and the thinking and planning behind it.
City and Guilds Technical Teacher's Certificate Questions
Examinations approach and some specimen material for answers to selected questions may be of use to student technical teachers and of interest to others. The answers given are…
A Nuffield Grant for College's Research on Sandwich Schemes
R.A.F. HarcourtTHE NUFFIELD FOUNDATION has recently given to Brunel College a grant of £5,000 p.a. for three years. This was the response to an application by the Department of Management and…
The Technical College Library — Some Suggested Standards
E.R. McColvinTaking a backward look at the development of libraries in technical colleges, the writer describes some of the causes of a highly unsatisfactory situation. However—there is hope…
READERS' SUGGESTIONS: THE USE OF ANALOGY IN TEACHING FOUNDRY SCIENCE FUNDAMENTALS
T.R. HarrisTEACHING CALCULATIONS, SCIENCE and drawing to craft students always presents problems. Making the basic principles of foundry science understood to the average foundry apprentice…
A SCHEME FOR TEACHING CITY AND GUILDS WORKSHOP STUDENTS
J. HansburyA framework of teaching method adopted in teaching City and Guilds workshop students is offered for readers' consideration. The author has been prompted to write by the…
A MECHANICAL ANALOGUE COMPUTER
L.J. AdamsThe Bush Differential Analyser. This machine was the forerunner of the electronic analogue computer. The first engineering model was constructed in 1931 at Massachusetts Institute…
TEACHING BASIC CHEMISTRY WITH MAGNETIC SYMBOLS
D.I. KingONE OF THE problems confronting training officers at iron and steel works is that of presenting elementary chemical reactions in a manner that can be grasped readily by junior…
Visual aids
A regular feature giving news and comment on events and new productions in the field of visual aids for technical and scientific teaching and training
Notes and News
TRAIN APPRENTICES NOW, Call to Industry. An appeal to industry to increase its intake of apprentices was made by the Hon Richard Wood, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of…
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