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Direct grant schools at ministerial mercy
W.R. van Straubenzee MBEInterviewed by The Times on 5 August, Reg. Prentice, speaking of the short time during which I was the Opposition Spokesman for Education, made the somewhat surprising comment…
Management education and training comes to Oman
S.E. BirdThe Sultanate of Oman lies at the southern end of the Arabian peninsular, bounded in the south by the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Oman, in the west by the Peoples Democratic…
Four and a half centuries of service
David BaggleyThose celebrating the 450th anniversary of the institution in which they work (as did Bolton School in 1974) would be well advised to look forward quite as hard as they look back…
Adult illiteracy — an urgent problem
Arthur CotterellIncreasingly the world is becoming aware of adult illiteracy. Its extent may still surprise many people—in 1970 there were 783 million illiterate adults throughout the world, at…
Singapore adopts all‐pass syndrome
Our Far Eastern correspondent reports from a recent press conference
Workers on the campus in Sri Lanka
D.B. UdalagamaThe workers' continuing education scheme at the Colombo campus of the University of Sri Lanka (Ceylon), started three years ago, has, in the opinion of the council of management…
Schools at risk
James Cobban CBEIt now seems clear that the present Government does not intend to make a frontal attack on the independent schools as such, though it may subject them to a policy of harassment…
Education behind the bamboo curtain
Franklin ParkerEducation is regarded as one of the State's main ways to achieve Chinese communism and to create the new Chinese man and woman.
Equal Pay + Equal Opportunity = Equal Endeavour
Eleanor MacdonaldThis is an open letter to girls still at school, or about to take a job, or plan their careers: a letter which has special significance this year because before long there will be…
Further education on the air
Tony MatthewsWe once did a television series for managers about the theory and practice of modern marketing. In one of the programmes we had Chris Chataway driving into the studio in a Ford…
ACFHE stands for 80 years service to education
Deryck CBE MumfordWhen Sir William Mather becomes President of the Association of Colleges for Further and Higher Education in February, he will be assuming an office which was first occupied by…
Rubber and Plastics
M.S. ClarkeEach of Britain's 12,000 secondary schools has been sent a copy of a new 20 page booklet entitled ‘Careers in the Rubber and Plastics Industries’.
Training in the jungle — CALTEX style
Lyndon JonesInside, the air conditioning was humming away and the IBM Computer System 370 Model 135 was whirring. Outside, the temperature and humidity were both in the nineties; fan palms…
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