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Viewpoint: Back to Lilliput
Opinion is swinging against large educational institutions. The very large secondary schools which found favour particularly in the 1950s and 1960s with the then London County…
Honoris causa — or call me doctor
Lyndon JonesSir Isaac Wolfson is the first man since Jesus Christ to have a college named after him at both Oxford and Cambridge. Sir Isaac has also collected a string of honorary doctorates…
Building Societies
Colin SuterThe building society is one of the most used and yet probably least understood of all the financial organisations at present operating in this country. The vast majority of…
Careers:: SELECTION
Bernard CatalloHow often are conversations—on these or similar lines—repeated, how vividly they portray all that is wrong with our approach towards enabling individuals to apply their talents to…
Careers:: TRAINING
Phillip WellsIn 1971, a major decision was taken which will continue to affect the training of building society staff for the next decade or more. This decision was the purchase of Fanhams…
Reading for Managers
Terry FarnsworthDespite the emphasis on management training during the past decade, it is doubtful whether more than 10 per cent of practising managers have ever read a book on management. Much…
Security in retirement
E. Craig SmithMost people now receive some form of pension throughout their retirement. This pension may be regarded as a payment of deferred salary, and all pension schemes provide for…
Cut them down to size
Rhodes BoysonWe live at a time when it is not only a fashion to build schools big, but when education authorities are enlarged until they cover wide areas in the belief that size is a synonym…
Technical education — a local or national responsibility?
Tom YoungMuch has been and is written about philosophies and fundamental beliefs in education as conducted in schools and in universities and other institutions of higher education. Little…
Hot line to the DES
Lyndon Jones, Gerry FowlerBinary or tertiary? At present the country has a “binary” system not only for students of 18+ but also for the 16–19 age group for whom responsibility is divided between school…
Happiness is an open‐ended time clock
David JubbThe London and Manchester is a relatively small Assurance Company with some 450 staff based in London and a further 1,500 working from two hundred district offices throughout the…
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