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Viewpoint: Return of the Medicine Men
No one estimated the number of ‘medicine men’ who posed as doctors of medicine during the frontier era of 1870 to 1910. Nor could one even hazard a guess at the number of deaths…
Training for the remedial profession
John MercerThe remedial professions are those that assess and treat patients after surgery or medicine has been given. They comprise occupational therapists, physiotherapists and remedial…
The Paper Industry
P.J. SwiftThe paper and paper products industry is made up of a number of diverse industries which make or handle paper and board in their many grades. They range from the suppliers of raw…
The automobile repair industry
David LeemingThis industry is regarded by many people as one of the newer industries in engineering and it has rapidly developed over the past twenty years, largely due to the increasing use…
Careers:: TRENDS
Owen SurridgeRomantics and the curious have always sought pastures far from home. This was no great problem for young Englishmen in the golden days of Empire, but now the adventurous must…
Careers:: TRENDS
I.C. KenworthyThe paper and paper products industry covers the production of basic commodities — paper and board — and their conversion into products such as stationery, carbon paper, boxes…
Careers:: TRENDS
RobinsonThere is an increasing requirement for chemists with abilities additional to skill in chemistry, and the range of courses now available reflects this need. Attitudes are changing…
What is so magic about sixteen?
A.K. WhiteheadIn recent years economists have been developing the concept of investment in human capital, despite misgivings in some quarters about the unhealthy overtones of the concept…
The APTI story
Adrian BristowFew people outside technical education have any idea what the initials APTI stand for. And there are many inside who would be hard pressed to answer. FE teachers probably regard…
Who's who in the APTI
Ford Foundation are sponsoring a 12‐month study at Sussex University of open learning systems in countries using modern media at post‐secondary level. Individual study reports…
The philosophy of education
C.A. ThompsonIt must surely be a part of our responsibilities to contribute towards the evolving of policies and plans of a system of education which permits the moral, mental and physical…
A new life at 60‐plus
The Chairman of the Association of Business Executives avers that the age barrier is there for crashing.
Industrial relations—tomorrow must be better
Reg. PrenticeThis is not intended as a party political message. But it is a ‘politician's eye view’ of industrial relations. I want to set out some of the policies I believe should be followed…
Job design in the office
Lyndon JonesAttitudes towards job design are changing. Initially, managers were influenced by the concept of the division of labour, or specialisation. This consisted of breaking‐up the work…
Further education—a poverty‐stricken future
Gerry FowlerWell, it's all the fault of the miners. Not forgetting those damned traindrivers, of course. Or was it the beastly sheikhs? Uncivilised lot, never could trust 'em, and very few…
Comprehensive is beyond comprehension
Rhodes BoysonThere are a number of parallels and a number of differences between schools and factories. Both have to be managed well to bring maximum effort and ‘production’ out of the labour…
How to get on without really trying
Gordon BowkerWhat can the schools or Youth Employment Service do for the ambitious child from a poor background? All the sociological evidence suggests that a working‐class background is still…
Future needs in adult education
T. KellyWe find ourselves today in two sorts of doldrums. First of all we are in the local government doldrums. Just at this time the whole of local government is in the throes of the…
Technology in School Science
Eric DeesonTo the usual selection of controversies aired — Nuffield, ROSLA, salaries, the use of unqualified teachers — was added, as might be expected, the various facets of the Emergency…
The blackboard jungle
This report of a serious problem within an Inner London Education Authority comprehensive school appeared in the South London Press.
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