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Culture
‘Why,’ asks Tom Howarth, High Master of St. Paul's, ‘is it considered an almost unspeakable human defect to have élitist tendencies?’ Either Mr Howarth is unobservant or he…
Roger Beard
There are now in the United Kingdom over 205 000 undergraduate and post graduate students. Ten years ago, there were less than half that number. This expansion has, above all…
CHRISTOPHER CORNFORD
Perhaps the most important and responsible student activism occurs in the Art Colleges. Christopher Cornford discusses why.
Eric Robinson
Within the public higher sector, the student participation is at a low ebb. Eric Robinson makes a plea for greater efforts.
FRELIMO: A revolution in education
Polly GasterMozambique extends along the southeastern coast of Africa. It has a population of around seven million Africans and 150 000 European settlers, not counting the 60 000‐strong army…
Personal: A monthly column
Roy NashAt a recent primary school parents' meeting a bewildered mother complained that her daughter was having to endure the eleven‐plus. She had thought, she said, ‘that all that was…
Teaching Methods in Technical Education — 5: progressive teaching
Jack MansellNumber five in a series of articles looking at methods and techniques used in further education in an attempt to define ‘progressive’ teaching in this sphere.
Comment: The Cuts
Gordon BennettNo reader of this column during the past twelve months will be surprised by the news, now trickling through day after day, of the measures local authorities are taking to restrict…
Focus: David Fletcher reviews this month's news in education
The uneasiest year for a decade in the education world creaked forward last month with the stresses and strains of living within a budget becoming ever more apparent. In schools…
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