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Central Training Council takes stock
The Central Training Council is not required to present a report annually: the Act requires the Council to report to the Minister ‘from time to time’. As the Council has now been…
Notes and news
U.S. trip for export students A distinctly ambitious project starts next April when a group of business executives will assemble at Huntercombe Manor, Slough College's recently…
In Parliament
The Queen's Speech opening the new Session of Parliament contained three references to education. In the first place, it declared that the Government would continue to develop…
Incredible bilateralism
G.S. BROSANThe bilateral system of higher education which the UK has had for many years has in the last few months acquired a new significance. The statements of the Secretary of State for…
National needs in management training
K.R. ALLENThe first academic appointments at the London Graduate School of Business Studies have been announced. The list makes impressive reading. It is obvious that the business schools…
Company needs in management training
DEREK P. TORRINGTONIn the quest for better management many companies are starting courses of management and of executive training for management. These vary from those with a broad sprawl of…
But once a year
ADRIAN BRISTOWDespite the all‐embracing goodwill, Christmas remains a dangerous time. I don't know about you, but I find that Christmas often seems to trigger off the mounting irritations of…
Practical standards for TOs
V.T STEVENSONI did not attend a course of training to prepare me for what has proved to be my life work, industrial training. This I regret. I and all my contemporaries in industrial training…
Engineering Drawing ‘What's wrong?’ — 1
R. THOMSONTeachers of Engineering Drawing normally spend much of their time correcting students' drawings. This is a time‐honoured occupation, but when they see the same errors being…
Responsibility for new staff in colleges … 1
BERNARD ARMSTRONGStaff are the most important factor of any organisation and by staff I mean salaried staff, not all employees, or commercial as distinct from industrial employees. This is not to…
Simple vacuum technology for teachers
M.H. CooperAs a result of the revisions at present being made to the science syllabus for schools, a large number of teachers in grammar and secondary modern schools are finding themselves…
A miniature engine test‐bed
M.H. HowarthA miniature version of a complete engine test‐bed has been developed specifically for teaching purposes at secondary school and technical college level. The technical college…
Visual aids
Permanent Magnets (col, 24 min) deals briefly but interestingly with the whole subject of magnetism. The development of permanent magnet materials is traced up to the present day…
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