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Polytechnics
Sixteen of the proposed 30 polytechnics have now been approved. Or have they? two years after the White Paper's publication, Mr Short has stated that: ‘subject to the amendment of…
BRADFORD
Bradford's problem relates more to the homogeneous nature of its intake than to any particular difficulties the city has over direct discrimination or violence. With an…
WOLVERHAMPTON
Taken from a Wolverhampton County Borough Council document on ‘Immigrants’, produced for the Shorts and Ennals of this world, the numerical extent of Wolverhampton's immigrant…
LONDON
As the District Inspector for Islington, Roy Truman has specific responsibilities in a borough with the highest immigrant intake in the country (23.1 per cent in the 1967…
THE IMMIGRANT SCHOOL LEAVER
TYRRELL BURGESSWe know now that Enoch Powell's school classroom with only one white child in it is as much a myth as his street with only one little old white lady and the hospital with only one…
THE OVERSEAS STUDENT
ERIC ROBINSONUnless the government's policy on sandwich courses is changed it will be the cause of a major row about racialism during the next decade.
Study course design
D.A.G. ReidA current problem The 1961 White Paper, “Better Opportunities in Technical Education”, drew attention to the need for courses of study to be well‐suited to the students concerned…
Student counselling in Austria
H.Z. HoxterThe period after the second world war was one of considerable hardship and widespread poverty in Austria; a time when many adolescents in technical colleges were found to be…
The marine engineer today
J.C. ThomasonThere is revolution everywhere on the maritime scene and the password is rationalization. Rationalization of work; rationalization of equipment; rationalization of dock…
Management's use of P.I.
C.K.M. BrunsirömThis paper outlines the principal problems confronting managers when they consider the use of programmed learning. The second part lists twelve steps which a manager should take…
COMMENT
As befits a former contributor to these columns Mr W. Easton, the new ATTI President, delivered two unusually literate and digestible addresses at the Association's Harrogate…
Focus
Brian MacArthurAfter the weeks and months of waiting, the interim announcement from the Department of Education and Science on the conditional designation of 16 of the 30 proposed Polytechnics…
IN PARLIAMENT
At Question time in the Commons, Mr John BifFen (Cons, Oswestry) asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proposals he had to increase productivity in the…
Films
Chris EdmondsThe tremendous number of films available, on almost every conceivable subject, from film libraries, never ceases to amaze. Alas, there is not enough time to see many of them and…
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