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TRAINING FOR ALL …: a new impetus in industrial training
AN IMPORTANT and very clearly defined stage has been reached in the development of industrial training. Disillusionment over the Industrial Training Council is now almost…
Notes and News
The full results are summarised here — without comment. Last year's results appeared in the October 1961 issue, p.29. This year's UK results were given last month on page 4.
BACIE ON HIGHER EDUCATION — Nottingham Conference
THAT PART of society with which readers are mostly concerned being, industry and commerce, we may perhaps be forgiven for devoting this report on Bacie's Nottingham Conference on…
A VISIT TO LETCHWORTH, ONE OF THE: GOVERNMENT TRAINING CENTRES
John WellensIf there is a Government policy toward training it is one of detachment or non‐involvement, occasionally modified by the need to do something to meet an emotionally charged…
COMMUNICATIONS CENTRE
Donald WilliamsAN INCREASING number of Tutor‐Librarians are being appointed to take charge of the well‐equipped libraries in new technical college buildings. Since such posts are a comparatively…
HOW BROAD ARE OUR HORIZONS?
J.T. WestHOW BROAD are our horizons, we who struggle by day and night to meet the needs of our students? Do we think about where we are going, or are we so much concerned with our…
CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES WITH VISUAL AIDS
Owen C. WatkirisTHE CHIEF danger with visual aids, particularly films, is passiveness — passiveness on the part of the teacher and of the class. The teacher may think that the film will do his…
Confident Speaking … Purposeful Reading
WITH LAST month's remarks in mind let us turn to the syllabus and get down to practical considerations. For simplicity and ease of handling I have split the syllabus into three…
PRACTICAL WORK FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNICIANS
R.F. LoweA method which can be employed to deal with the teaching of basic techniques without using too much material, or allowing the student to waste time by unnecessary repetitive work…
USSR CRAFT AND TECHNICAL TRAINING — 7
J. LongdenWhen making a short, intensive study in the USSR one's immediate difficulty is to comprehend an utterly different way of life. In any study of education, in particular, it is…
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
A TEACHING AID FOR COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
B.F. Gray, B.Sc.)Eng. (COMPUTERS—both digital and analogue — feature fairly prominently in up‐to‐date syllabuses of electrical engineering subjects. But colleges concerned with this topic are often…
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