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Barriers to training
The training boards and the Central Training Council are now on the move. We wish them well.
Notes and news: Industrial training boards meet
‘A University for a rainy day’. This might have been a fanciful description of the demand for higher education in an age of leisure, but it wasn't. It was the graphic way of…
In Parliament
The Commons have approved without a division the following Motion, moved by Mr Charles Curran (Cons, Uxbridge): ‘That this House, recognising the social consequences that follow…
Further thoughts on induction and guidance
BRUCE M. COOPERThe July 1963 issue of TECHNICAL EDUCATION carried an account of an Induction/Guidance course planned for full‐time students who were entering a General Studies Department in a…
Courses for training the Training Officer
JOHN WELLENSCourses for training the training officer are catching on and appear to be shaking down to some discernible common pattern. It is no secret that the Garnett College attempt to…
Should colleges teach engineering?
H.J. TURNERSpecialisation, and its concomitant, the division of labour, are efficient and — to most applied scientists — essential working techniques.
Technical College libraries: 1 Problems of classification
D.L. SMITHAlmost every college with any sort of library must by now have found it necessary to arrange its books and pamphlets in some sort of subject order.
Technology and the Renaissance Man
RALPH BERRY PH.Among the most firmly established of teachers in CATs and colleges of technology is the English graduate. He is welcomed on all sides: administration regards him as proof that the…
The impertinence of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
R.M. HELSDONIt appears reasonable to assume that the legitimate functions in the field of education of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers on the one hand, and the mechanical engineering…
Discussion: Training Training Officers
P.E. YAXLEYA recent statement by the Rt. Hon. Joseph Godber, that he is ‘greatly concerned with the small number of qualified training officers’, has led me to question whether the reason…
Evening class wastage
V. AHIERBruce Cooper's article highlights an important problem and an attempt was made last year locally to tackle this by having a Youth Employment Officer on duty at evening institute…
Models for Electrical Engineering Teaching
A.V. MANNELL7 Model to show the action of a single phase induction motor The model shows that the sinusoidally varying m.m.f. produced by a coil can be resolved into forward and backward…
Visual aids
Wide Range Cutting Oils. (col, 26 min) was originally made in France by Je Vois Tout for Mobil Oil Francaise, and a dubbed English version has now been made by Technical and…
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