Education + Training: Volume 1 Issue 5

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DSIR and the Technical Colleges

This is a slightly condensed version of the address presented by Sir Harry Melville, KCB, FRS, Secretary of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research at the Annual…

Problems of apprenticeship — 5: After Apprenticeship — What?

J. Wilson

An apprenticeship should have, and be seen to have, a continuing purpose. It also needs a real ‘end‐on relationship’ with the career‐building period which follows. Without this…

How to Pass Technical Examinations

H. Loebl

High failure rates worry everyone concerned with technical teaching and the qualified manpower problem — and they worry the potential failers too. Any advice on examination…

Technical Subjects in a Comprehensive School

E.T. Butcher

Mr Butcher outlines the places which technical subjects have in a comprehensive school such as his own. It is planned to introduce courses in agriculture at the school in the…

Applied Science for the Able Student

A.E.H. Ward

How should the more able grammar school pupils best be guided on courses and careers? Mr Ward discusses some of the problems brought out by Mr Merriman's article in our last…

Laboratory Work in Mechanical Engineering

W.A.G. Easton

This is the first of a series dealing with laboratory work — its place in National Certificate courses, its organisation and its content. Mr Easton discusses here mainly the…

Towards a Corporate College Staff

T.E.A.K. Jackson

As a change from buildings and their equipment we take a look this month at the human aspect of college life. Dr Jackson describes an agreeable experiment in human relations — an…

City and Guilds Technical Teacher's Certificate Questions

This specimen answer material should be helpful to student technical teachers and of interest to others concerned. The answers are fuller than would be required, giving the…

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ISSN:

0040-0912

Online date, start – end:

1959

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Martin McCracken