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The Crisis
1968 has been for education the year of the Pig. Financially disastrous and socially destructive, it has ended in political stalemate — with the local authorities overwhelmingly…
Anne Corbett
Who are the young school‐leavers? In some senses they've been with us a long time. They're the boys and girls who have left school at the legally earliest point. And they're the…
David Fletcher
Tom Bradley has never lived in a house with a bathroom. Born and bred in the Lancashire mill town of Accrington, he lives in the two‐up and two‐down type of terraced house spawned…
Tyrrell Burgess
Just think: about half the children in the schools the nation provides leave them at the earliest chance they get. We spend £2000 million a year on education, five per cent of the…
Margaret Miles
‘We find’, remarked a District Magistrate of the Kericho district of Kenya to a New Statesman correspondent, ‘that quite a lew of these children are capable of benefiting from…
Fred Flower
People with even a superficial knowledge of educational history are aware that in Rugby continued education of one day a week is compulsory for all young school leavers until the…
Edward Boyle
The present outlook for the education service, in terms of resources, cannot be regarded as encouraging. Over the next two years the rate of growth of expenditure on education is…
Eric Robinson
Because we think of work and industry as a necessary evil we (the sentimental intellectuals) want to protect our children from it for as long as possible and we therefore…
Eddie Edwards
Clissold Park School, in 1969, has close on 100 pupils in its upper and lower sixth forms. Yet this school is situated in what has been termed a socially depressed area and a…
Education and partisan politics
Christopher Chataway‘If only education could be taken out of politics’, people say. It is an apparently widespread feeling and a sentiment that one hears expressed by teachers and parents alike. In…
Human rights
Ronald GoldmanNot very long ago many of us, who were aware of racial conflict and the problems of human rights in other countries, would have been very surprised that this kind of seminar was…
Feedback
Jack MansellNo. 2 in a series of articles looking at methods and techniques used in technical teaching, in an attempt to define ‘progressive’ teaching in this sphere.
Teacher training
James RenderThirty years ago the teacher training colleges of England and Wales contained about 10 000 students. By this year the number had increased tenfold — to just over 100 000.
FOCUS
Brian MacArthurA monthly column in which Brian MacArthur, Education Correspondent of The Times, reviews the month's news in education.
Films
Chris EdmondsEquipment In order to consolidate their present position and help expansion both in the UK and abroad, Rank Audio Visual will be marketing their products under the trade name Rank…
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