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CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY EDUCATION
THE LONG‐AWAITED Certificate of Secondary Education — offspring of the Beloe Report — became a reality in late May with the publication of Ministry of Education circular 9/63. The…
Notes and News
J. LongdenIn his address to the Annual Conference of the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions, the newly installed President, Mr Jack Longden of Leamington Spa, referred to the…
PARLIAMENTARY REPORT: Management Education, The GTCs, Apprenticeship and Manpower Forecasting
MANAGEMENT EDUCATION In the House of Lords, Lord Eccles asked the Government whether, in view of the importance of developing management education, steps were being taken to…
ADULT TRAINING AND RE‐TRAINING IN THE US
G. TolleyIT IS OFTEN conceded that many of America's problems are ours too, although our two countries are usually out of phase. With the growth of unemployment in Britain, and the growth…
THE ENGLISH SPOKEN BY WEST AFRICAN STUDENTS
Peter SaundersTHERE ARE at present several hundred students from West Africa in universities and technical colleges in the United Kingdom. It seems likely, therefore, that many readers of…
The Impending Bill on Industrial Training: The Certification Issue … 2
John WellensA frill for the adornment and, perhaps, encouragement of the worker — or a highly important instrument in the reform of industrial training as a whole? Testing and certifying the…
SYMPOSIUM Part 2: Mechanical Engineering Laboratories — their design, equipment and use
W.A.G. EastonWhy do technical colleges contain mechanical laboratories? A simple enough question, but one which would produce a wide range of answers if it could be put to all teachers of…
8 TRANSIENT PRESSURE MEASUREMENT
W.A. PullmanIt is well known that the pulsating air flow in intake and exhaust pipes of an engine or compressor can have appreciable effects on the performance of the machine. In order to…
9 PLANNING FOR APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS
W.N.C. MooreIn the first section of the symposium, published last month, Mr Moore contributed some thoughts on the layout of a laboratory for Applied Thermodynamics.
10 A PEG‐BOARD AID FOR THE TEACHING OF TAPER TURNING
R.A.E. TripleyThis visual aid has been developed to assist the teaching of the principle of taper turning; the model simulates an attachment available with many present‐day lathes.
11 MECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS
G.S. BrosanLaboratory work can be split into two parts; demonstrations, by which many basic principles can be taught, and ‘task experiments’ in which students are taught how to perform…
12 SOME EXPERIMENTS IN PRODUCTION ENGINEERING
Members of the Staff of the Mechanical Engineering Department, Leeds College of TechnologyExperiments in Production Engineering at the higher levels should not be confined to machine operations and processes. They should be designed to show the student how machine and…
The Content of COMMUNICATIONS COURSES … 3
J.G.M. TyasHITHERTO, OVER‐EMPHASIS by teachers on the skills and techniques of writing has tended to obscure the fact that communication does not take place in a vacuum, but is always to…
A LIBERAL STUDIES SCHEME TAKES SHAPE
A. DowmanIn our June 1961 issue, Mr Dowman described how his college had tackled the problem of liberalising the courses for its 500 full‐time students. Readers may be interested to know…
INDUCTION AND GUIDANCE at a Technical College
Bruce M. CooperIt is a new and strange experience for a 15‐year‐old, full‐time student of domestic science to sit down to lunch opposite a fellow student who happens to be a 35‐year‐old…
Thoughts on ACCOUNTANTS, MONEY AND THINGS
Edwin DownIt is sometimes said that the training and experience of the accountant should qualify him for a very high office in his company and thus enable him to make a considerable…
Visual aids
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