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THE DANGER OF UNILATERAL ACTION
THE NEW Certificate of Office Studies announced by the Minister of Education, on 27th March will, from September 1963, provide a special national qualification for junior office…
Notes and News
Beginning next September, technical colleges will offer courses for junior office staff who wish to take a course of further education connected with the work they are doing, but…
PARLIAMENTARY REPORT: The Budget — Training — and the CATs
Dealing with the target of promoting a four per cent rate of growth the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in his Budget statement, said it was the availability of manpower, and…
The Training Bill — The Case for More Information
John WellensFOUR MONTHS have now elapsed since the publication of the White Paper on Industrial Training; debates have been held in both Houses. On the credit side has appeared, basically…
THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF ENGINEERING TECHNICIANS: Questions of Status
Willis Jackson, C.R. English, W.A.G. EastonBrief extracts from some of the papers presented at the recent Institution of Mechanical Engineers' Conference on
Education for ENGINEERING PROGRESS
G.S. BrosanSINCE THE end of World War II, the pace of social change, stemming from the economy, has brought upon engineers the realisation that the social, economic and ethical factors in…
INTRODUCING SUPERVISORY TRAINING
J.A. ChristieTEXTBOOKS SAY that training has to begin at the top and then work through the organisation. When I took over the production unit of a medium‐sized factory engaged in batch…
The Content of COMMUNICATIONS COURSES … 2
J.G.M. TyasNOTHING IS so depressing about present‐day scientific education as its compartmentalism — the widespread failure to ‘carry over’ scientific ways of thinking and apply them to…
PRACTICAL WORK IN THE NEW ENGINEERING COURSES … 5: Mechanical Engineering Technicians — Part 2
J. LongdenBEFORE DISCUSSING Part 2 of the course, it may be useful to see where the supplementary subjects of Part 1 stand in relation to the course as a whole, especially as they are…
CCTV in the demonstration of Engineering Experiments
Brian F. RuleIt is quite easy to think of any number of cases in which closed‐circuit television would be a great advantage in the demonstration of an experiment. Only when one attempts to use…
NOTTINGHAM APPRENTICES' VISIT TO FRANCE
John WellensThe engineering departments of the People's College of Further Education, Nottingham, have now organised two continental tours for their apprentice students, the last being in…
TEACHING DIRECTED NUMBER
J.S. HigginsWhile it is true that there are sharply opposed views among the authorities on the teaching of directed number and that the theoretical distinction between, say, 7 and +7 can be…
Educational Television — An Upsurge of Interest
We may find ourselves looking to the underdeveloped countries for inspiration on the use of television in education — rather than they to us, thought Mr E. A. O. G. Wedell…
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