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THE UNLUCKY SIXTH
PIPPED AT the post by the printing dispute, TECHNICAL EDUCATION failed to appear last month. It was practically ready to go to press when the dispute began, so we have fortunately…
Vocational Training for a Common Market
Hugh A. WarrenWhether or not Britain joins a rival economic union, increasing competition from the European Economic Community is a factor to be reckoned with. Effective rationalisation of…
Advanced Studies in the Technical Colleges
Stephen CotgroveThe pursuit of administrative tidiness may be hindering the work of the colleges. The author contends that special treatment for one type of college must be to the disadvantage of…
The Mechanisation of Mathematics
C.V. GreggMr Gregg foresees a great future for the analogue computer in technical colleges, pointing to its value as a teaching aid as well as for solving problems and training in computer…
The Technical High School Approach
E. SemperThe author's school, which was illustrated in our May issue, provides the basis for this statement of the aims and methods of a secondary technical school, the balance of its…
ASPECTS OF APPRENTICESHIP — 6: Student Apprentice Selection
R. LemoineGEC's student apprentice selection procedure, which is centred on a group selection technique, has reduced wastage very substantially.
Business for Technologists
W.V. Selby EdgeThe technologist with aspirations to high‐level management and administration is going to need more than cost‐consciousness to back up his specialist studies. In the author's…
Laboratory Work for Engineering Students
G. PallettSecond in a series on the place of laboratory work in National Certificate courses, and its organisation and content, this article deals in particular with the function of…
Balance in Liberal Studies
F.D. FlowerLasting differences between the ‘extract’ and the ‘inject’ schools of thought on liberal content suggest that some more general principle is needed. The author finds in wartime…
City and Guilds Technical Teacher's Certificate Questions
VISUAL AIDS, EDUCATIONAL VISITS Question — Estimate the contributions of two of the following to successful teaching and indicate clearly how and when you would use them in…
TEACHING TOPICS: The Teaching of Jig and Tool Design
W.F. WalkerIT HAS BEEN stated many times that jig and tool design is a difficult subject to teach because the design of such equipment rarely has a mathematical basis. Few will disagree with…
Introducing the Transistor into HNC Courses
B.F. GrayTHE TRANSISTOR is today a firmly established electronic device which is challenging the thermionic valve in many fields. The pace at which the transistor has been developed has…
Visual aids
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OXFORD CONFERENCE CONCLUSIONS. The recommendations of the Commonwealth Education Conference which ended on 28th July were briefly as follows:
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