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Education, New York Style
Vicky LainsonI have recently returned from New York where I was teaching in the Children's Community Workshop School in Manhattan. This school, which was set up last September, was run…
AMERICA! AMERICA!: US management education
Houston ElamManagement education represents an important segment of American college and university higher education courses, taken both for credit towards a degree or for management use. So…
HER MAJESTY'S INSPECTORATE
Alan TaylorProbably the criticisms now most frequently heard about the House of Commons revolve around its loss of control over the Government. Debates, it is argued, are largely lifeless…
The universities and research
David DollimorePossibly the simplest definition of technology is that it is the use of science in manufacturing things. This has a significant implication in respect of universities and schools…
Industrial training assessment
Derrick GodfreyDr Godfrey wrote on the matter of industrial assessment in our June issue. Below he reviews the situation at Woolwich.
CIVIL SERVICE
G.P. MeredithOne of the biggest problems that will stem from the implementation of the Fulton Committee's report on the Civil Service will be the training of the next generation of ‘new image…
CAREERS‐ORIENTATED EDUCATION
Hugh O'NeillThere is today a great deal of criticism of the present examination system; on the one hand there are the educational theoreticians, who believe that most curricula are too…
IN‐SERVICE TRAINING
Michael PollardIt was about five years ago that ‘in‐service training’ started to become part of the everyday jargon of education. It was a more impressive phrase than the term ‘refresher…
Sixth‐form: C.F.E?
John RofeOnce comprehensive education is established there are four possible schemes of sixth form organization to be considered:
Objective Examinations
Frank BaconIn last month's article consideration was given to continuous assessment as a better alternative to the traditional time‐test examination. Although some form of continuous…
Comment
Gordon BennettThe (Redcliffe‐Maud) Report of the Royal Commission on Local Government in England holds out a dismal prospect for further education. In return for reorganization and…
View
Chris PriceOne of the more successful of the NUT's campaigns in recent years has been that to eliminate untrained teachers and establish the real prospect of a Teachers' Council, which would…
FOCUS
Brian MacArthurA new mood of militancy seems to be sweeping through the education system. Although it is led by school teachers, and on this occasion not simply by the active unionists, there…
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