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ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN THE SEVENTIES
Sir Desmond Lee, late headmaster of Winchester, has taken comfort (Times, 9 September) in the rise from 12 500 to 27 000 sixth‐form pupils taking mixed (ie science and arts…
DAVID FLETCHER
A gloomy picture of the state of engineering education in British universities is painted by statistics published in recent months. So few school leavers appear to be attracted by…
ERIC ROBINSON
The engineering profession has been bitterly attacked by many technical college teachers (myself included) for the crude restrictive practices it maintains in engineering…
EDWIN PACKER
My son is good at metalwork and woodwork but does not shine at English, maths or science. We have been thinking of putting him in for engineering. How do we go about getting a…
TERRY PAGE
In the 1970s, there will have to be more education in engineering and more engineering in education. It will be increasingly important to see education as a continuing process…
DONALD HUTCHINGS
Winston Churchill once said of a political opponent, ‘Occasionally he stumbles on the truth but he picks himself up and carries on as if nothing had happened.’ By using this…
DR. JOHN LEESE
On several occasions I have called attention in this magazine to the contrast between the centralized control of content and evaluation of student performance in further…
COMMENT
Gordon BennettThe press coverage of further education is strangely patchy. Education is now taken more seriously by editors than in the past but technical education is considered pretty dull…
Focus
Brian MacArthurA new survey of student failure at universities by the University Grants Committee showed that nearly one in eight of the students admitted to universities drop out without…
Films
Chris EdmondsA couple of new films aimed at helping the export drive illustrate two radically different approaches to the same theme. There is a very real need, in these days of ‘export or…
Leeds training school
Work at the new Leeds Training School, the first to be specially built and equipped by the Engineering Industry Training Board for its own use and opened last September, is now in…
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