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News: Kent further education colleges to be blacklisted?
The blacklisting of all FE colleges in Kent may be used as a weapon against the local education authority which is attempting to reduce staff at two art colleges in the county.
Programme for development
Alison DunnSalaries and conditions of service more than usually dominated the 64th annual conference of the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions at Manchester last month…
Topics
An additional qualification in a spectrum of qualifications available throughout continuing education,’ is the diploma of higher education as envisaged by the study group set up…
Who needs books?
Peter Mann‘The true university’, said Carlyle, ‘is a collection of books’. His concept remains unchallenged — universities are more closely involved in the use of books than almost any…
It's a man's life.…
Barry TurnerCan it really be ten years since the last national serviceman handed in his billy can? That means (quick calculation on fingers) that it is almost seventeen years since I was…
Snippets: ATTI — Manchester hotspot
This year's conference must surely go down in ATTI annals as the hottest ever. Not that it was tempers inflamed — the radical left did their militant duty and little else. But…
Sale of honours
Lyndon JonesIn 1880, John Norris, a crusading Philadelphia editor, exposed some of the earliest debasers of American higher education, by buying a set of bogus degrees in medicine, law, and…
Careers Section: Computers in Guidance
Tony Watts of the Research and Development Unit at CRAC describes the problems — human and technical — of computer systems in careers education programmes. P 218.
Careers:: TOPICS
David GuestFew people today would dispute the need for vocational guidance. Yet it has generally received a relatively low priority in governmental, administrative and educational circles…
Careers:: RESEARCH
Tony WattsGuidance is an immensely labour‐intensive, and therefore expensive, process. As our concept of what this process needs to involve becomes more sophisticated, the sheer logistics…
Careers:: TRENDS
Geoffrey FordMost traditional industries pass through a phase when massive re‐organisation is necessary for survival, and during that period have difficulty attracting either sufficient staff…
Careers:: SELECTION
The art — and science — of selection is nowhere better demonstrated than in the giant international companies who cream off the best of graduate talent. Unilever has been…
Careers:: TRAINING
Terry CollinsThe careers service covers such a range of activities, each brushing against those of so many other agencies, that it would be hard to find any two officers following the same job…
Careers:: AGENCIES
David FraserAs early as 1959 the Crowther Report pinpointed the last year of compulsory education as the heaviest year for juvenile delinquency. It is therefore, a curious paradox, that…
On the move
Jack MansellThe Haslegrave Committee was set up in 1967, it reported in 1969 and TEC was set up in 1973. Many of the points put to and emitted from Haslegrave will therefore inevitably…
Opinion: People's Poly
Maureen O'ConnorInstitutions, like Topsy, tend to just grow. And the more hectic the pace of growth the more unlikely it is that anyone within them will find the time to sit back and take stock…
Courses
A new venture in the education of non‐vocational day release students, which for some time has been regarded as a particularly difficult group is being tried at City College of…
Aids
Tony Crocker, Anna SprouleKodak has rationalised their range of the well‐known and popular Carousel 35mm slide projectors. The Carousel S and Carousel S‐AV are probably two of the most widely used slide…
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