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The Computer
In this issue we are considering the computer in education. What is most revealing is the abnormality of the concepts promoted by the word. In other electronic and technological…
The computer in education
There are to date some 180 computers installed or on order for university and technical college use — excluding the small digital machines, the analogues, and the hybrids. Some…
Interfaces
By 1970 the estimated number of computer installations in the country will be 3000, twice the present figure, with another 1000 in the planning stage. Crudely this translates into…
The computer in the school
Bill BroderickIn the United States of America and Canada the potential of the computer in secondary education has been, and still is being diligently examined by a number of teams of research…
The present picture
D.G. TooseThe Report of the Inter‐departmental Working Party, published in 1967, gave estimates of the numbers of specialist staff required to work in UK computer installations by 1970…
The college centre
A.H. WiseEducational Computing Centres, certainly within further education, are of a great variety of types and size. The one thing they all have in common is that like Topsy they just…
A regional college network
John AbrahamsMuch of the material in this article was given as a lecture at a conference on ‘Computers in Further Education’, held at Cambridge on 13 June. The specific proposals here refer to…
The university centre
Alan KirkSince the first electronic computers were constructed some 20 years ago, the Universities of this country have been intimately associated with their development, first with their…
The programmers
Julie ZellComputer programming as a job or profession was unheard of a few years ago. Now thousands of people work at programming. Newspapers are full of advertisements offering high‐paying…
Education by television
Alan Kirk ITECDuring the past five years it has become increasingly apparent that the media of communication have been used in isolation. Teachers have been conditioned to think in terms of a…
Report, stage 1: The public schools commission
Roy NashIt was a memorable occasion, the day of publication of the Public Schools Commission report. Observers who lived through it may be forgiven for thinking of it almost in terms of…
The first R: a subject of scandal and concern
Brian KnightleyBert Smith was angry when he saw his morning paper. He decided to write to its Editor. The article which aroused him was about reading. The reporter said it was an appalling fact…
COMMENT
Gordon BennettIn spite of many efforts to terminate the pregnancy the Open University is about to be born and the technical colleges will have to put up with the squealing brat for many years…
Focus
Brian MacArthurStudents managed to continue occupying the headlines throughout the month, and Britain's longest‐running sit‐in so far — at Guildford College of Art — did not finally end until…
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- Dr Martin McCracken