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THE SCHOOL‐LEAVING AGE
THE SCHOOL‐LEAVING AGE is to be raised to 16 in the educational year 1970–71: Newsom had recommended this change for 1965, and Crowther for one of the three years 1966–69.
Notes and News
Noel EvansThe British Employers' Confederation describes the plan to raise the school‐leaving age to 16 in 1970–1 as a “welcome change”, and expresses the hope that the extra year of…
IN PARLIAMENT: The Training Bill, Day Release, Government Training Centres
Speaking during the debate on the third reading of the Bill (see the article on page 128) in the House of Commons, the Minister of Labour expressed the Government's intention to…
DIP. TECH. (ENG) PROJECTS
E.L. HoughtonTHE STUDENT PROJECT is not a new phenomenon in education. Teachers have often practised their art by postulating a set task or problem to their students and guiding their crafts…
ART CAN AID INDUSTRY
BERNARD ORNAIN THE COURSE of a recent lecture at the Royal Society of Arts, Mr Laurence Irving, Master of the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry, touched on the subject of training for…
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING BILL — the final form
John WellensTHIS IS the last of three articles which together give a complete account of the Industrial Training Bill. That in the January issue dealt with the Bill as originally introduced…
LETTERS & DISCUSSION: Salaries of Principals
A.J. James, PrincipalIN December 1961, an article appeared in TECHNICAL EDUCATION entitled “The New Burnham Technical Scales”. This discussion of the then new scales included the statement:
THE TIME‐TABLE MANIPULATOR
A. Quinton AllanONE SUBJECT that must absorb a large proportion of the time of a head of department is … the time‐table. College departments vary to a remarkable degree in size and scope, so that…
AN AID TO TECHNICAL DRAWING
B. FARMERIn my experience of teaching Technical Drawing and Geometrical and Engineering Drawing over the past few years, I have noticed that when I arrive at the ‘Loci of Points in…
TEACHING WITH CCTV
B.T.B. RATCLIFFThe products of our technological achievement are urgently needed now—back at the source of their inspiration. Educationists need them, whether they realise it or not, and must be…
MODELS FOR ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING TEACHING
A.V. MannellThis model is used to show the connection between a rotating vector and its sine wave. Instantaneous value, reversal, and rate of change can be demonstrated.
Visual aids
A surprisingly large number of children have a ‘feel’ for the relationships between numbers‐the difficulty is to capture their interest right from the start. Mathematics at Your…
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