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Thugs?
The ineptitude with which the LSE affair has to date been handled is a disgrace, and a symptom of the reaction that Edward Boyle fears against the moderate progress made since…
The Teachers
Roger BeardThere were at the beginning of this year some 328 000 qualified teachers in primary and secondary schools — responsible for the education of nearly 7.8 million children. Trained…
Tyrrell Burgess
If Edward Short gets a small Education Act through Parliament next session (leaving the task of major reform to his successor) it will include something on secondary…
David Fletcher
It reads like the comment of a disgruntled customer airing his views on the inadequacy of shop assistants or barmaids. In fact the remarks — and many others in similar vein — were…
Michael Duane
If ever there was an area in education almost totally lacking in coherent form, befuddled and contradictory in its theories and chronically incompetent in relating practice to…
Bruce Kemble
Our greatest manpower problem — a shortage of at least 42 000 teachers — is nowhere near a solution. Indeed recent events are likely to aggravate rather than ease the situation.
Peppy Barlow
The colleges of education have been transformed, some of them out of all recognition, if numbers alone are indicative. Ten years ago only three training colleges in England and…
Eric Robinson
The key to understanding national policy on the training of teachers is that it provides cheap higher education of teachers who can be cheaply employed. Teacher training is…
Student protest: a plea for reason
Edward BoyleEdward Boyle writes: ‘Student protest’ is not an easy subject for politicians at the present time. For there can be no doubt that public opinion is thoroughly aroused over the…
Free?: Claire Pollock re‐examines the curious affair of the independent university
I am not a great believer in conspiracy theories, whether of the left or of the right. When we approve of something, we tend to regard the people who promote it as a legitimate…
Methods in technical teaching — 4
Jack MansellNumber 4 is a series of articles looking at methods and techniques used in technical teaching, in an attempt to define ‘progressive’ teaching in this sphere.
CCTV group study
John CowanClosed circuit television can be used in undergraduate teaching to increase efficiency and to decrease the total involvement of staff where the classes are large. So far this aim…
Senior staff training
John GardnerThere are about 40 000 full‐time teachers in Technical Colleges in this country. About 25 000 occupy posts in which they receive additions to salary for professional and academic…
Gallery
James RenderA monthly column in which James Render, gallery correspondent of the Sun, reviews progress in Parliament.
Comment
Gordon BennettAt the beginning of February Mr Short, Lord Robbins and Sir William Alexander played their deplorable part in escalating the student troubles in higher education. In this they had…
FOCUS
David FletcherDuring Brian MacArthur's absence in the USA, David Fletcher of the Daily Telegraph takes over this column.
Films
Chris EdmondsHovercraft N4 (col, 19 min) tells a story of wide interest — the design, construction and testing of the world's largest hovercraft built to date. The tale of the first N4 dates…
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