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Missing link
Already we are spending over £200m annually on higher education: every year each student at this level costs an amount which varies between £568 (Arts) and £1,061 (Medical). And…
Block release and day release
A.Q. ALLAN, J.S. HIGGINSAt Whitwood we read the Bradford account of their six years of experience in block release (December 1964 issue) with pleasure and with profit tinged with some regret that it was…
Notes and news
‘Whatever else happens in British industry this year, one thing is certain — 1965 will go down as industrial training year.’
In Parliament
The Secretary of State for Education and Science, Mr Michael Stewart, announced in the Commons the Government's decisions on the recommendations of the Committee on Higher…
‘Engineering should not be taught at school’
Putting engineering subjects into the school curriculum is not the best way to get more boys interested in technology. This is the opinion of Sir Patrick Linstead, Rector of…
Implementing the Act … a progress report
JOHN WELLENSThe Central Training Council first met on 4th June 1964 and since then has established five committees: a Scottish committee, a Welsh committee, a general policy committee, and a…
The group dynamics approach to leadership
J. KELLYThe new social science approach to business behaviour optimistically assumes that the modern executive has a grounding in social psychology and its latest sub‐division, Group…
Engineering thermodynamics laboratories
R.A. JACKSON, E. PARKERThe importance of effective laboratory work in mechanical engineering courses cannot be over‐emphasised. Firstly, laboratory work normally occupies about one third of the time in…
Engineering drawing: further steps
W.S. OLDThe five basic steps outlined in last month's article brought the student to the task of preparing a pictorial view from an orthogonal drawing. This, together with the reverse but…
Tunisia: modern training for ancient crafts
R. BUTLERThe traditional craftsmanship of the Tunisian bazaars is taking a new turn.
Field review of ‘A/S’ level chemistry textbooks
MICHAEL BASSEY B.Sc. Ph.PART IV Inorganic chemistry textbooks. Seventeen textbooks of inorganic chemistry are considered in this part of the review, and the inorganic sections of the syllabuses of the…
Consumer reaction — the students speak
JOHN WELLENSHere is a book on higher education in university and CAT, a book not about administration, nor about the need for expansion and how to finance it but, believe it or not, about…
Visual aids
The following new films are now available from the Central Film Library, Government Building, Bromyard Avenue, Acton, London W3.
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