Education + Training: Volume 6 Issue 11

The technology of education

Productivity, technological change, modernising Britain: how these words have been recklessly bandied about in recent weeks. The words themselves have been so cheapened as to be…

Notes and news

‘To help the colleges to make their full contribution to higher education by providing a range of degrees of unimpeachable standards of quality which reflect the diverse needs of…

Field review of ‘A/S’ level chemistry textbooks

MICHAEL BASSEY

For students of chemistry at the Advanced and Scholarship level of the General Certificate of Education, there are at least 23 books on sale for the physical chemistry part of…

A time for fundamentals

JOHN WELLENS

Within the lifetime of most readers the great period of national heart‐searching was at the end of the second world war. New thinking about education was enshrined in Butler's…

Elements of Engineering Design—at ‘A’ level

R. FOY

During the past ten or fifteen years, the relative prosperity of our society, with its changing values, has been reflected in most selective schools by an increase in the size of…

Discussion: The Certificate of Secondary Education

S.A. MORLEY, J.C. DAVIES

Many of the new CSE Regional Boards have now issued their syllabuses and specimen papers, and large numbers of candidates will be taking the first examinations next May.

Producing 8mm teaching films

C.V. HANCOCK, G.E. BONE

Cine film, correctly used, can be a powerful aid to technical teaching. It is an effective means of lesson illustration, bringing into the classroom those things which the student…

Film in Higher Education and Research

The serious shortage of teaching films suitable for use in university‐level work was an important theme in the opening address by Mr John Maddison at the recent conference on ‘The…

New filmloops

‘For many years teaching methods and the subjects taught in schools remained largely unchanged. Now new ideas are rapidly ousting the old…’. Using these words, Mr Harold Macmillan…