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Decision on road transport
Nine training boards are already in operation. Three industries have training boards in the pipe‐line: furniture and timber, textiles (excluding wool), and road transport. An…
Notes and news
A special committee has been appointed by the Central Training Council to consider the problems of the recruitment and training of training officers. It is composed partly of…
Works training school and technical college — co‐operation or competition?
JOHN WELLENSThe Training Boards for Engineering and Construction have both embraced the principle that grant for apprentices is to be conditional upon the apprentice following a day release…
The Metcalfe approach
Ian FinchPeter Haxby of Royce's is a man of no mean standing among training managers. Like most other people at BACIE's September conference at Loughborough he confessed to being sceptical…
Leyland's new hall of residence
Stokes Hall, the £¼ million hall of residence for students and graduate apprentices at Leyland Motors' factories at Leyland, Lancashire, was opened by the Prime Minister, Mr…
Engineering Drawing 1 — Tracing exercises
R. THOMSONThis is the first of a short series describing some of the simple yet effective teaching techniques in use at Shrivenham
The new training officer
V.T. STEVENSONBecause of the immensity of the tasks facing the industrial training boards, it will probably be years before their policies can be made fully effective. When one considers what…
Integrating College reprographic services
J.B. YOUNGThe author considers the impact of the need to produce transparencies for the overhead projector on the whole reprographic equipment of a college
The Worcester circuit board
E.J. WenhamDevised for the Physics Section of the Nuffield Foundation Science Teaching Project, the Worcester Circuit Board enables quite young pupils to explore for themselves the phenomena…
‘VISA’ — The variable incident simulation apparatus
The difficulty about trying to train people in production control and planning is that you can't bring the factory to the classroom. Nor can you take the class to the factory…
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