Table of contents
THE URGENT PROBLEM — CO‐ORDINATION
THE NATION has been sold a new catch‐phrase — ‘the Modernisation of Britain’. Spurred on by the heady wine of a forthcoming general election, our leaders are pouring forth such a…
Notes and News: COMMENTS ON THE TRAINING BILL
The BEC state that the Bill “will provide a modern looking blueprint for industrial training and a sound framework within which future developments can be made. The actual…
Manpower Planning: Sir Willis Jackson on urgent needs of technology
The tenth Fawley lecture of the University of Southampton was given by Professor Sir Willis Jackson, F.R.S., on the subject of ‘Scientific, Technological and Technical Manpower’…
IN PARLIAMENT: DEBATE ON THE INDUSTRIAL TRAINING BILL
There is an undoubted emphasis on industrial training and technical education in the new Session of Parliament. It cuts across party lines and is unchallenged, even by the most…
Better Opportunities …: — for failure?
L.G. BellairsIT IS NOW possible to observe the pattern developing in craft and technician courses following the reorganisation prompted by the Government's White Paper. The City and Guilds of…
THE INDUSTRIAL TRAINING BILL, 1963
John WellensIN THESE WORDS the Government describes the Bill's intention. Of itself, the Bill is no guarantee that provisions for industrial training will be improved. It is an enabling Bill…
LETTERS & DISCUSSION: Engineering Exams — Some Heretical Thoughts
J.R.D. FrancisTHE QUESTIONS set in engineering examinations are in one respect surprisingly uniform in nearly all universities, and colleges, and professional institutions: each question…
Towards an Association of Industrial Training Officers
A.W. StevensonIN HIS LETTER in your December issue, Mr Hammond is concerned about establishing a sound basis for a profession because of the wide diversity of responsibilities and…
SEX AND GENERAL STUDIES
Ian J. FinchFor a group of apprentices, sex can be a non‐vocational day‐release background study of crude and compelling interest, and with the sanctions of school discipline left behind, it…
MANAGERS IN THE MAKING
T.H. HawkinsSOME THREE YEARS after the publication of the interim report, the Management Development Schemes Committee of the BIM have issued their findings and recommendations in a final…
TEACHING HEAT TRANSFER — laboratories equipment and experiments
G. PallettIN THE LAST few years the subject of heat transfer has been steadily gaining in practical importance. This is not only due to advanced researches in the fields of rocketry…
THE LANGUAGE LABORATORY: Part 2 minimum requirements from the teacher's angle
H. Friedmann, L. L.èsMost booths in use today are fixed installations that cannot be moved — or at least not easily — once installed. Most have a transparent front panel facing the teacher (or the…
BIRTH OF A COLLEGE …: 5 — The first weeks of life
W.A.G. EastonWeek I ON MONDAY, 2nd September 1963, the new College stirred into life as the full staff reported for duty. The first staff meeting was held that morning with all teaching and…
GEAR‐PLANING
J. SchofieldMost technical college laboratories or machine shops consider it essential to have some method of manufacturing involute gears. If special‐purpose machine tools are installed they…
Visual aids
Fresh support comes to that best economiser of road space, the bus, in a highly topical colour film Omnibus — For All. The battle of private car v public transport in town and…
ISSN:
0040-0912Online date, start – end:
1959Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Dr Martin McCracken