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SPREADING THE GOSPEL
THE IMPORTANCE of technical education in a guilty world is now taken as read. All the more surprising, therefore, that outside the three or four colleges which exist for training…
Common Sense in Commerce
Keith R. AllenMr Allen shows how a commercial course was planned and put into operation with enthusiasm and high hopes. The course's aims were not fully realised, and the reasons for this…
Entry to Technical Courses … 2
R.J. HartlesLast month Mr Hartles outlined the courses now open to 15‐and 16‐year‐old school‐leavers destined for jobs as craftsmen, operatives or technicians. Concluding the article, he here…
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE: Team Work in Careers Planning
N.W.E. FlandersThe first of two articles from a member of the Youth Employment Service: next month's article will deal in particular with careers guidance beyond the school
Training Computer Personnel
M. BridgerThe historical growth of industry involved and largely depended on the substitution of machine power for muscular effort. But industry's growth entailed the proliferation of the…
Teaching Machines: 1. — A Simple Model
W.R. SinnottViewing teaching as an industry, one might say that educational television and teaching machines are means of raising the teacher's productivity. Television widens greatly the…
THE IMPLICATIONS OF TECHNICAL CHANGE
Stephen CotgroveHow will technical change affect the kind of knowledge and skills required by industry and commerce in ten years' time? And what educational changes are necessary to meet future…
Employment, Training, and the Common Market
John WellensThe financial and political implications of joining the Common Market have received the lion's share of public discussion. The changes it would mean for employment and training…
UK APPRENTICES TEST THEIR SKILL
The 1961 International Apprentice Competition, Duisburg. An effective means of comparing the skill of apprentices from different European countries has been developing over recent…
Films in the Teaching of Metallurgy
A.D. HopkinsNOWADAYS IT is common for students at all levels in Metallurgy from craft to degree standard to view films at some stage in their training. Since there is apparently no shortage…
TEACHING METHOD: English for Craft Students —5
John LynnThe very mention of poetry, poems or verse immediately suggests to craft students something superior, something beyond their ken, something ‘soppy’. The reasons for this attitude…
Visual aids
A regular feature giving news and comments on events and productions in the field of visual aids for technical and scientific teaching and training
Notes and News
Aa a result of the action taken since the publication of the McMeeking Report, there is good prospect during the next few years of a substantial increase in the number of students…
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