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Viewpoint: Study from a new stance — distance
The education provision in most countries, and the UK is certainly a case in point, is front‐end loaded. A disproportionate percentage of public funds is invested in young people…
Books
Ruth HoldsworthI make no apologies for devoting the whole of this month's review to one volume. Its merits warrant time being spent on it and, anyway, it's an area that particularly interests…
Higher education finance
This is a delegate's report of a seminar presented by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy at the London Tara Hotel.
A quest for realism
Reginald RevansThere is a tale about a man who was considering a challenge: could he walk a thousand paces with his severed head carried under one arm? When asked what he thought would be the…
Careers in…: Beauty therapy
Eve TaylorMost careers officers and teachers will have experienced the problems of advising young people about training and opportunities for beautician work. The situation has grown…
Careers:: TRAINING
A new domestic science centre, the most modern and comprehensively equipped at any school in the country, has been opened at Carmel College, Mongewell Park, Wallingford, Oxon, for…
Careers:: COURSES
Ten single courses of particular interest to teachers wanting in‐service education will be offered by the Open University next year in its Associate Student programme. The…
Careers:: COURSES
Ten single courses of particular interest to teachers wanting in‐service education will be offered by the Open University next year in its Associate Student programme. The…
Topics
The Professional Association of Teachers have attacked the government's plan to pay 16‐year‐olds for staying on at school as bordering on the immoral. Their published statement…
Managing higher education
Gordon OakesAn effective system of management and financial control of higher education in the public sector is essential if the polytechnics and other colleges are to play a full part in…
Management of conflict
Denys PageConflict is an essential ingredient of any walk of life — especially business life. To pretend that it does not exist is to blind oneself to reality and thereby reduce one's…
One‐third of our future
S.C.C. StokerFor a number of years teachers in Further Education have been making loud public noises about the need for more Industrial Training and Further Education, more day release, and…
What shall we teach the teachers?
Gerry FowlerQuis docebit ipsos doctores? Who will teach the teachers themselves? — as Juvenal might have written. Even more important, what shall we teach them? The questions arise in an…
Changing patterns in teacher training
Trevor KerryThe PGCE courses offered in universities and colleges of education face a number of crucial problems at a time when teaching has changed, and is still changing, its character at a…
Silence is a gold brick
Lyndon JonesOften the person most knowledgeable about a particular job is the individual actually performing it. But all too frequently he is not offered the opportunity to say whether the…
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