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The long, the short, and the tall
GORDON WALKER'S removal from the Department of Education and Science is sad but inevitable. Perhaps the greyest, certainly the most accident‐prone of this administration's…
Coleg Harlech
Harold Silver“Of profound significance is the program of Coleg Harlech, a small and independent Welsh institution, whose students have been shop‐assistants, miners, steel‐workers, quarrymen…
Adult education in the United States
Roger De CrowNo day passes in the United States without the invention of new kinds of adult education programmes, in which new subjects are taught to new audiences of American adults whose…
Colleges of Education
Peter GraingeSo wrote that distinguished educationist, Sir Richard Livingstone in 1941.
Ruskin College
Peter Digby‐SmithJim is thirty‐one years old. The son of a railway worker in the north, he left school at fifteen and was a manual worker for the next few years. By the age of twenty‐one he was…
Teacher or tutor
K.J. AdderleyThe effects of examination stress will always be a popular topic of conversation in academic circles, whether related to the controversial 11‐plus, the GCE or the MSc, so long as…
Streaming in Further Education
Frank BaconStreaming in schools is becoming a burning topic and the recently published Gittins Report on Primary Education in Wales has added some fuel to the fire. Although streaming by…
Levies, grants and manpower training for industry
David Bell, David ColemanEchoing the Second Report of the Central Training Council, the Estimates Committee of the House of Commons has recommended that the first task of industrial training boards is to…
COMMENT
Gordon BennettIndustrial experience is as important to politicians as to teachers in technical colleges; and increasingly important as the government is compelled to intervene in industrial…
Focus
Brian MacArthurAs predicted in this column only a month or two ago, the great debate about university entrance and the sixth form curriculum is gathering steam. At the end of last month, after a…
IN PARLIAMENT
The then Secretary of State for Education and Science, Mr Patrick Gordon Walker, made a statement in the Commons about students' grants.
Films
Chris EdmondsBritain: a country where blowing your own trumpet is frowned upon and self‐denigration is commonplace. Now that the crunch has apparently come the need to export is vital, and we…
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