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Having it both ways
Circular 10/65, issued by the then Secretary of State Tony Crosland, requested in strong terms that the local education authorities submit schemes of secondary reorganization…
Miss Buss and Miss Beale
Roger BeardGirls' education owes much to the dedicated Victorian pioneers. Roger Beard puts forward the view that for the 1970s, all children should be educated together.
The Gentle Sex 1
Richard BourneRichard Bourne, Education correspondent of The Guardian, outlines a way of removing the present inequality in the education of girls.
The Gentle Sex 2
Anne CorbettAnne Corbett looks back on the achievements of the suffragette girls' schools and makes a plea that we stop classifying children by sex.
Opinions
Margaret MilesMargaret Miles, one of the country's most prominent head‐mistresses suggests that one way of removing the problem is to abolish girls' schools.
Stone Cold Dead in the Market
Peppy BarlowPeppy Barlow, herself a casualty of girls' education, returns to her home area to see what advances have been made in the past ten years.
TECHNOLOGY IN THE SCHOOLS STATE OF PLAY
Geoffrey HarrisonProject Technology is, to date, one of the few serious attempts to counteract the drift away from science and technology in schools. The approach is basically one of improving…
The Polytechnics —can they work?
Brian Gomez da CostaThe attention the media have recently devoted to higher education in general, and polytechnics in particular, presages what may become a full blown struggle between competing…
Focus
Brian MacArthurBrian MacArthur, education correspondent of The Times, reviews the month's news in education
Comment
Gordon BennettThe proposals of the White Paper Reform of Local Government in England are an improvement on the proposals of the Redcliffe‐Maud Royal Commission because they include a further…
View
Chris PriceThe eternal argument about the overall pattern in which we organize our schools tends to induce a state of total complacency about what goes on inside them. The politicians…
Training
Valerie HolmanTo most people industrial training conjures visions of apprentices in greasy overalls, tackling the mysteries of lathes and horizontal milling machines. In fact today's training…
The audio‐visual scene—a personal view
Peter VernonAs one educational theory chases another off the stage, can we blame the teacher who, losing all sense of direction, would like to ‘contract out’ of the rat‐race of educational…
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