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Technical Education in Wales
Ideally, technical education and the training of technical personnel generally, should be a responsibility shared equally by the world of education and the world of industry. We…
Selection for Technical Education
Ethel C. VenablesThe investigations of the Crowther Committee confirmed the findings of small‐scale research and left us in no doubt about the wastefulness of much of the part‐time education…
Thinking, Learning and Teaching: Some notes on the development of thinking in the adolescent and its implications for teaching
Duncan CaseWe can browse in our favourite bookshop and cast an eye over the educational publications in stock and find a host of titles which suggest that infancy and early childhood receive…
The Pattern since 1956
A. MacLennanThis continuation of the author's series of articles on the recent history of technical education in this country, deals in particular with the problems facing the colleges
Advanced Industrial Training for Overseas Students in the US
A short note illustrating one aspect of US industrial training. A later article will describe ‘co‐operative’ courses — the American equivalent of sandwich courses
National Lending Library for Science and Technology — a major step forward
John WellensIt is only recently that we have come to recognise that organised facilities for making available current literature in science and technology form an essential and important…
DISCUSSION: Textbooks and the Student
R.H. PritchardI Sincerely hope that we are sufficiently aware in the colleges of our inheritance from the school teachers' work towards academic freedom. One aspect in which we have won this…
Statically Indeterminate Beams
S.E. BeddallIn order to determine the deflection of such beams or to construct their Shear Force and Bending Moment diagrams, many diverse methods are generally used.
VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE: Careers Convention
Bernard GossAS CAREERS MASTER at my school, I decided some months ago to organise a Careers Convention. I first wrote to the nine secondary schools in the area last November and invited them…
More Self‐Measurement
V.T. CromptonMr V. T. Crompton's article in the February issue included a self‐measurement questionnaire designed to help pupils understand their needs and potentialities. The present…
Developing Managers
T.H. HawkinsA discussion of the British Institute of Management's interim report on a survey of management development schemes
TEACHING METHOD: Craft Theory for Electrical Courses — 2
R.J. HartlesThis article contains suggestions for a practical and non‐mathematical approach to magnetism and electromagnetism for electrical craft students. Like the teaching scheme for the…
Visual aids
A regular feature giving news and comment on events and productions in the field of visual aids for technical and scientific teaching and training
Notes and News: DOUBLE THE NUMBER IN TEN YEARS
Staffing needs at ATI Conference. “Why isn't he on the Burnham Committee?” This was the reaction of several people to the outstanding address given to the Annual General Meeting…
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