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To Crosland's 10/65 comprehensive circular must now be added a sublime piece of Departmental idiocy, circular 14/69. Hard on the heels of computers, teacher remuneration, and…
AUDIOVISUAL 1
Roger BeardFour years ago the University Grants Committee, the Department of Education and Science, and the Scottish Education Department published the Brynmor Jones report on audio‐visual…
AUDIOVISUAL 2
Peppy BarlowAudio‐visual aids begin, as all good followers of Edward Short will tell you, with talk, chalk and blackboard; and should never be allowed to end in a mass of blurting, blinking…
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
Brydon LambSo NAVEX 69 is over. Looking at the 95 stands of the exhibition of audio‐visual aids and materials in the great hall at Olympia no one would have suspected that this is a year for…
CCTV Portsmouth
Harry BradleyThe Portsmouth College of Technology is a Polytechnic designate. In this establishment there not only exist 13 departments but a whole range of courses at different academic…
An Englishman's view of the American experience
Peter RiggIn Chicago the training instructor's day starts at 6.00 am. Five days a week he switches on his TV set before breakfast to Education Exchange a half‐hour programme demonstrating…
The status of engineers
Geoffrey JuryA Polish colleague once confided his surefire technique with girls. ‘At home’ he said, ‘if I fancy a girl I tell her I am an engineer. In Britain, I only let that fact out when I…
The ‘free’ university
Gamini SalgadoIn spite of a brief flurry of activity recently (in the form of a London conference and the announcement in The Times that ‘fund‐raising will now start in earnest’) it seems…
THE 16+JUNGLE
Francis RobertsThe proposals for educational reform suggested by Sir William Alexander in his recent book Towards a New Education Act have been put forward to stimulate informed discussion on…
Open book Examinations
Frank BaconIn the present educational climate there is great interest in the examination system by forward‐looking educationists. It is not surprising, therefore, that a wide variety of…
The ILEA sixth form
Nicholas BagnallTop officials of the Inner London Education Authority will be going into the field next term to explain to headmasters, division by division, just what the authority means by its…
Education and party politics
Edward BoyleNow that we are approaching the season of the Party Conferences, it is worth while considering in general terms, the relationship between education and politics. One still hears…
Comment: an open letter to Mr Fred Willey
Gordon BennettDear Mr Willey, I hope you will forgive my presumption in offering some suggestions for the work of the parliamentary select committee of which you are chairman and which recently…
Gallery
James RenderThe Consolidated Fund Bill is a device which allows MPs to raise most topics under, and including, the Sun. (The plight of my own newspaper was one of twenty subjects debated in…
Focus
Brian MacArthurAbout 25 000 students are expected to enrol for the first year of the Open University, which was presented with its Royal Charter on 23 July, when the Prime Minister made the…
Audio‐visual review
Chris EdmondsIn the new venue at Olympia, NAVEX 69 was an undoubted success. But for the non‐specialist — for the person who simply wanted help in communicating his own subject to a class of…
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