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SUPERMARKETS AND SOULS
Those who live in the South are well aware of the spread of supermarkets. Well‐known family firms are being swallowed up to form groups and these in turn become merged with some…
Notes and News: SECONDARY MODERN EDUCATION
Employers give their views. The educational standards and personal qualities employers look for in their young recruits are suggested in a recent document. This is the British…
The Wages of Skill: When the financial incentive to train is negative — not just slight — what remains?
J. HansburyIn any discussion with students, either individually or collectively, it soon becomes apparent that most of them suffer to some extent from two main troubles: first, a feeling of…
Förmans Institut Markaryd
Architecture and design, not to mention the surroundings, will give Sweden's newest training centre a good start. Harold Lowenstein describes the supervisor training course and…
Changing Patterns of Employment: Part 2 — Semi‐skilled Work
John WellensLast month Mr Wellens gave an historical analysis of how increasing industrial sophistication upgrades the labour force. Educational changes brought in to keep up with these…
The Youth Employment Service — A look from within … 1
Gerald H. FranceFrom the inside the Youth Employment Service is a very good thing. Since the Ince Report (1945) and the Employment and Training Act, 1948, that outlook has stood well. The YES, as…
School to Work
As reported in our last issue, M. P. Carter's study of the transitional problem among school‐leavers in Sheffield seems to suggest that the difficulties are much exaggerated. The…
Towards Creative Thinking
Duncan CaseWAS ANY real attempt at conscious development of the thought process made in our school days? No doubt we were subjected to barrages of questions designed to elicit a required…
Centenaries, '62: II. J. M. RANKINE
IN 1862 W. J. M. Rankine, Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Glasgow University published his ‘Manual of Civil Engineering’, a stout volume of 784 pages costing 16s…
THE MACHINE TOOL LABORATORY — 5: Single‐Spindle Automatic Lathe Work
W.F. WalkerTests and exercises on the sliding‐head and standard types of single‐spindle automatic lathe are described in this fifth article. Next month Mr Walker concludes the series with a…
English for Craft Students — 8
John LynnA great many craft students suffer from under‐educated parents — an unkind way of putting it, but so many of their homes provide no pro‐educational influence at all. The teacher…
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