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THE WAY AHEAD
WE ARE coming to recognise that the past fifty years have been years of neglect in many aspects of our national endeavour: we have neglected to invest in roads, in houses, in…
Notes and News
The National Association of British Manufacturers expresses concern at the absence of any suggestion for a central coordinating body in the Industrial Training White Paper.
An Australian Experiment: CATCHING SCIENTISTS YOUNG
FIVE LEADING scientists recently travelled across the world to lecture a group of Australian teenagers. The scientists, from England and the US, were guest lecturers at the 1963…
The Content of: COMMUNICATIONS COURSES
J.G.M. TyasTHERE IS a growing tendency for industrial managements to recognise the importance to morale and efficiency; of effective communications‐horizontal and vertical, individual and…
TRAINING MAKES CONTACT
Keith R. AllenFREQUENT, INFORMAL, man‐to‐man, contact. This is the essence of the Safety Contact Scheme, recently introduced at Tanqueray Gordon & Company Limited, makers of the world famous…
The White Paper on Industrial Training: 3. The Training Boards, the Levy, and the Small Firm
John WellensTHE PREVIOUS article in this series on the White Paper on Industrial Training sought to establish the importance of the over‐all body — the National Occupational Training…
Programmed Learning Integration … 2: TIME TO TEACH
F. Paul ThomsonLAST MONTH we discussed the part that systems in which teaching machine and language laboratory techniques are integrated can play in aiding learning, and the British equipment…
‘Mass, Weight and ‘g’’
A.M. Macpherson, J.Y. Benzies, S.N. RobertsonTHE PROPOSED definitions in Mr Grease's article in the February issue have, in my opinion, only added to the number of unsatisfactory definitions. As they stand, the definitions A…
PRACTICAL WORK: IN THE NEW ENGINEERING COURSES … 4 Mechanical Engineering Technicians — Part 1
J. LongdenTHIS COURSE is a completely new engineering course. It is not a refurbished Machine Shop Engineering course, nor is it a watered‐down National Certificate course: it is one…
UNSOUND QUESTIONS IN GCE PHYSICS EXAMINATIONS … 2
J.W. WarrenIn 1960 the University of Durham Advanced‐Level examination included the question, “An oil drop, carrying one electronic charge (i.e. 4·8 × 10–10 e.s.u.) is held stationary midway…
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
‘Practical Work in School Science’
Michael BasseyAre you a doer or a thinker? “We were repeatedly told by teachers and students that they had been so engrossed in what they were doing and how it was done that they had given…
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