Education + Training: Volume 6 Issue 2

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ALL HANDS ON DECK

WE HAVE been taken to task by some readers for giving our support to the new Training Bill. There seem to be quite a few people in the business who would have us write it off as a…

Notes and News: TRAINING IN AREAS OF HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT

In his travels early in the new year, the Minister of Labour, Mr Godber, announced two interesting developments — first a new arrangement for training unemployed boys on…

IN PARLIAMENT

The Minister of Education has rejected a suggestion from Mr Denis Howell (Lab, Small Heath) that he should reinstate the cuts made in the estimates of the CATs for the current…

EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT: ROBBINS … TECHNICIANS AND THE PROFESSIONS

STEPHEN COTGROVE

Report Ch XI: PART‐TIME STUDY AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION 510. Our terms of reference relate to full‐time higher education. Our picture of the future pattern would, however, be…

TECHNICIANS AND THE PROFESSIONS

STEPHEN COTGROVE

BY ITS terms of reference, Robbins was excluded from examining the pattern of part‐time higher education. The Government has now published its Industrial Training Bill, which is…

DICTATED PRODUCTION

John Wellens

IT IS an amazing fact that, all over the world, not only in Britain, training aids for craft skills have far more often been visual appliances than audio‐appliances. This is quite…

For Dip. Tech. students: BROADER HORIZONS

V.C. Marshall

THIN SANDWICH COURSES make particularly heavy demands for industrial training places for their students, as each student needs four different types of training in his four‐year…

LETTERS & DISCUSSION: Industry's Debt to the Services

Colonel A.W. Cowgill

IN THE interesting article in your December issue on the REME School of Electronic Engineering, John Wellens, commenting on the thoroughness of the training in this particular…

Integrated Basic Training Courses in the College

J.A.C. Williams

MR LONGDEN'S article in your November issue, on College‐based, integrated basic training courses and the note on Mr C. R. English's speech at the Oxford Regional Advisory…

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING RILL

John Wellens

FOLLOWING THE second reading, reported in the last issue, the Bill was considered in Committee in December. This Committee stage — four sittings of about two hours each — was…

TEACHING MUSIC TO THE COUNTY COLLEGE TYPE OF STUDENT

John W.R. Lynn

Pop — notwithstanding Mr Finch's article last month — is the No 1 interest for countless young people. It offers just as good material for teaching the fundamentals as other types…

THE LANGUAGE LABORATORY: Part 3 minimum requirements from the teacher's angle

H. Friedmann, L. L.ès

OTHER TYPES OF LANGUAGE LABORATORY 1. Laboratories without student recording facilities. To this category belong the various types of ‘milking machine’. The programme is fed to…

TEACHING HEAT TRANSFER … 2

G. Pallett

Radiation Problems. A great deal of lecture time in this subject must be devoted to radiation configuration factors. As the integral for these quantities is usually exceedingly…

Visual aids

Of late a number of films have been released with a slant which — whether it was their first purpose or not — makes the films particularly useful for careers guidance.

Cover of Education + Training

ISSN:

0040-0912

Online date, start – end:

1959

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Dr Martin McCracken