Table of contents
Risinghill
THE Risinghill issue, dormant since the closure of the school in 1965, has leapt into prominence with the publication of Mrs Leila Berg's book on the subject. It is not our…
LONDON
To explain education in London is at the the same time to outline the history and development of much of the nation's educational progress since the 1870 Education Act. It is also…
Forever Plowden: The Primary Schools
The ILEA primary sector employs 8600 teachers for 239 640 children from every economic/ social/ethnic grouping in London. It is vast and the schools are numerous: 882, various…
SPECTRUM: Special Education
The London School Board made its first resolution on blind and deaf children as early as 1872 — setting a pattern for pioneering/experimental special education which has…
ELEMENTS OF CHOICE: Comprehensive Schools
Until recently the most contentious, if not the most important issue on the educational stage was comprehensive re‐organization. Apart from dying rumbles from Surrey and the…
Further education: The Middle Earth
Further education in London inherits a long and complex tradition that gives it a unique significance within the whole provision. Kept administratively at a low level by a…
RATIONALISATION: Higher Education‐The Polytechnics
At the upper end of the authorty's formal education structure, the higher education branch encompasses the middle tier technical colleges, the aided colleges, teacher training…
The parties — a view of ILEA politics
James RenderIt now spends in current and capital costs more than £125 million every year. It bosses some 1100 nursery, primary, and secondary schools with 400 000 pupils and a teaching staff…
The Public Schools' Commission
Kenneth ClareMr Short is now deciding whether to act on the recommendations of the fifteen‐strong Public Schools Commission. He is expected to make their suggestions public next month. Few…
Educating the teachers
Michael DuaneIt is as a result of the artificial separation into academic, intellectual and employer, on the one hand, and practical, manual worker on the other, and the exploitation of the…
Focus
Brian MacArthurIt has been the month of the Conferences, especially of the National Union of Teachers, the National Association of Schoolmasters and the National Union of Students. All have…
Comment
Gordon BennettWhat about the ‘other’ colleges? In some respects their plight now seems worse than it did two years ago when the White Paper on Polytechnics was published — although at that time…
In Parliament
Replying to a debate on students grants, the Minister of State, Department of Education and Science, Mrs Shirley Williams, said that the present grant system had a recent birth…
Films
Chris EdmondsThe need to retrain adults is now new though the associated difficulties probably loom largest in the lives of the disabled — those unfortunate enough to be injured in accidents…
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- Dr Martin McCracken